Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

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 a…

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

There is a popular superstition that 'realism' asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the…

I have spent half my life trying to get away from journalism, but I am still mired in it - a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world ful…