Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that’s going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what’s more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.
Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.
Not all political prisoners are innocents.
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first – and the other 2% are lying.100.
I’m not the slowest writer that you know.
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I’m ruthlessly efficient with my time.