P. J. O'Rourke Quotes:
Ocupation: Satirist
Life: b. November 14, 1947
Birthday: November 14
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
source: P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.213, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
topic: Responsibility, Light, Objectivity, Modern Journalism, Critters, Olympian
