[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.