It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

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.

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

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

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.

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.