I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.