“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and i can write faster than anybody who can write better.”

“Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.”

“Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.”

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

“What a madly gay little wine, my dear!" M. Cliquot said, repressing, but not soon enough, a grimace of pain. "One would say a Tavel of a good year," I cried, "if one were a complete bloody fool." I did not say the second clause aloud.My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.”

“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”

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