#journalism

"I’m more of a journalist than anyone in the mainstream media, and I write fiction. More than fiction, I write absurd nonsense surrealism, and my work has more truth."

"I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something that the average high school senior can’t even read."

"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."

"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."

"In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world."

"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

"This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view."

"Mainstream news wants to keep you as a useful idiot. Instead, try being a non-useful idiot."