The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.