Samuel Johnson

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.

Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

I’ve met some great people that deal with me in the press. I’ve also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.

If you get good ratings, they’ll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

Contrary to what a lot of people think, I don’t enjoy doing press. I’ve been asked the same questions a million times now, and I don’t particularly like talking about my personal life.

We got killed in Newsweek.

One of the more radical and interesting possible ways to limit the power of unaccountable media barons is to give journalists the power to elect editors and have seats on boards for workers and consumers when a title or programme gets particularly large and influential.

I can understand the British media and why they are doing that. It does not add up to much. I’m used in my life to not paying much attention to some things.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn’t happy.

[The New York Times] don’t write good. They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don’t – they don’t write good. They don’t know how to write good.

With the press there is no ‘off the record’.

My people keep telling me I shouldn’t write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn’t I be able to say what I want to about theirs?

We want someone to bring us the news.

There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?