I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

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

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.