I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Journalism schools are good to get a job, but I don't know what else they are good for. I don't like the word "journalism" to begin with. It's news reporting, and that consists of using your two feet. The only lesson, then, that you could give people is how to climb stairs, because there are no stories on the first floor.

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

I always react to news immediately. That's my business.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.