Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.