Who said “I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only…”?

“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”

“Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.”

“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”

“In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.”

“You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.”

“It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”

“Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.”

“It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.”

“Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.”

“The best way to fill time is to waste it.”

“It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.”