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Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.

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

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.

I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.