"Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt..." - Quote by Walter Winchell

“A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.”

“America - love it or leave it.”

“A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.”

“...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.”

“And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.”

“When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.”

“Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.”

“I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.”

“A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.”