Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

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

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.