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

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.