Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

The first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac. It's great for the first two weeks.

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.