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.

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

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.