Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

One of the most valuable philosophical features of journalism is that it realizes that truth is not a solid but a fluid.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost for ever, even to the protagonists.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

Put it to them briefly, so they will read it; clearly, so they will appreciate it; picturesquely, so they will remember it; and above all, accurately, so they will be guided by its light.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?