Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.