“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

“I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.”

“I also bought a copy of The New York Times, the previous day's issue of which I had seen the previous day in Puerto Rico. I was interested in newspapers and knew this paper to be one of the foremost in the world. But to read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself. It made me feel a stranger, that paper.”

“I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”

“Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”

“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”

“People say that there are neither dragons to be killed nor distressed maidens to be rescued nowadays. I do not know, but I think I have dropped across one or two, nor do I feel sure whether the most mortal wounds have been inflicted by the dragons or by myself.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

“No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every single day.”

“One of the first things I had been taught as a child was never to believe a single word that was written in newspapers.”