To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.