Who said “Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the…”?

“It is always the unreadable that occurs.”

“Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?”

“News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.”

“The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.”

“No news is good news.”

“Optimism is the opium of the people.”

“Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.”

“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.”

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.”

“Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.”