Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

More always means worse.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.