“Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

“Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.”

“Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don't get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that.”

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

“I know about an actual murder over a watch, it's in all the newspapers now. If a writer had invented it, the critics and connoisseurs of popular life would have shouted at once that it was incredible; but reading it in the newspapers as a fact, you feel that it is precisely from such facts that you learn about Russian reality.”