That ephemeral sheet of paper, the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

It is the gossip columnists business to write about what is none of his business.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

People everywhere confuse What they read in newspapers with news.