Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.