There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....

It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.