“What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.”

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

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”

“There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.”

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

“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.”