What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.