“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”

“True life lies in laughter, love and work.”

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”

“We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.”

“I brought the newspaper close up to my eyes to get a better view of George Pollucci's face, spotlighted like a three-quarter moon against a vague background of brick and black sky. I felt he had so...”

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”

“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”