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

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

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Talent is often a defect in character.