Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

People everywhere confuse What they read in newspapers with news.

I take a grave view of the plight of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role is to make money.

There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)

If you try hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.