QuoteLog

“We’d like to stay friends. But the European and British intelligentsia, by and large, is like a friend who’s been allowed to be condescending for so long that he literally can’t see it any more.”

“Stability? Stability is for free nations.”

“As long as Jews and Arabs live side by side, they will kill each other, and each other’s children.”

“The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.”

“The media learned that war, unlike politics, does not depend upon the media to exist.”

“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 full of misfits and drunkards and failures.”

“Facing the press is more difficult than bathing a leper.”

“Your mind can be changed, your heart can be swayed, but your penis is very stubborn.”

“We’ve got our anti-US forces. Lots of them. We’ve taken the precaution of rounding them up and keeping them penned in newspaper offices.”

“Remember when your mom insisted that you take typing in high school, and you didn’t listen, and took Shop instead? How often do you build benches these days, huh, wise guy?”

“Ah women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

“The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is, ‘What does a woman want?’ “

“All civilized people can agree that killing Jews is wrong. Well, killing six million of them 60 years ago is wrong. Killing a couple of dozen every 48 hours or so, that’s a different matter.”

“Let those who say that we must understand the reasons for terrorism, come with me to the thousands of funerals we’re having in New York City - thousands - and explain those insane maniacal reasons to the children who will grow up without fathers and mothers and to the parents who have had their children ripped from them for no reason at all.”

“France is the insecure girl who mistreats her big lug of a boyfriend in public but always comes back crying when there’s trouble -- car won’t start, Nazis attacking, etc.”

“I blog for fun, not profit, which I think is a little like saying I’d rather be a slut than a whore.”

“TV relies on pictures; radio on emotive voices. Blogs are about words, period, and you stand or fall on how well you use them.”

“If you can’t communicate clearly in writing, perhaps the Internet is not the best place for you, eh?”

“Web logs are infuriating because they are thoughtful alternatives to the self-important New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and their toady satellites, much of whose reporting has become hardly less biased than the bloggers’. Bloggers at least have the honesty to admit their biases up front. They don’t pretend to be objective.”

“You’re never too old to do goofy stuff.”