What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.