The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat -- no matter who killed the meat for him.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

The real news is bad news.