“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”
“A poor original is better than a good imitation.”
“A journalist's work depends on a willingness to ask questions of people who are better informed and more powerful than you.”
“The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style”
“It is better to be rich, happy and healthy, rather than poor, miserable and sick!”
“I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.”