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"I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that."
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"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."

"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."

"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."

"In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it."

"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."

"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops."

"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."
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"Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us."


"Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged."


"Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic."


"Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic."


"For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do."
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