I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist — a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community — that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
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