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

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

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.

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

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.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.