Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy - all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.