“I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.”
“Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art”
“It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.”
“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”
“the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.”
“They would owe most of their success to a curious rape mania that rides on the shoulder of American journalism like some jeering, masturbating raven.Nothing grabs an editor's eye like a good rape.”