The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Looking around me, I saw that all my colleagues were busy at the same task. Eyes were rolled up, mouths hung open, here and there a finger twitched. It had to be either a day trip from the Catatonic Academy, or the modern press at work.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country