Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.

But nothing seems to do any good.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.