That ephemeral sheet,… the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. – Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, July 1858
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. – Jimmy Breslin
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. – Samuel Butler
A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasnt the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman. – Robert Johnson
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clans bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. – Camille Paglia
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
