Columns Quotes

I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

A man is as young as his spinal column.

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

I don't write about my life in my column.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.

Well, I refer to Celebrity Jeopardy as the short-bus Jeopardy, because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

I would encourage people to go to NYTIMES.com and read this column and you can see for yourself.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!