[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

He was trying to save both his faces.

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.