The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world - that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it:My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear. [Pg. 142.]

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe …

There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives'... …