Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."

"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place."

"The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public."

"A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something."

"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."