The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money..

If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there ….

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Isl….

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels..

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one..

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news..

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior..

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn..

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments..

I can write better than anyone who can write faster..

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one..

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it..

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant….

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional….

There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yoursel….

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlat….

News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. N….

Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection..

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience..

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with spor….

Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana wh….