"A newspaper, not having to act on..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.”

“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.”

“I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.”

“Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.”

“France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.”

“The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.”

“Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.”

“We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.”

“Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.”