"You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot."

“The subject permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation—both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents—and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.”

“As a result of its generous stand , the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children’s Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins…playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.”

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

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

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

“Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.”