"The business of a magazine is to make many friends." — Perriton Maxwell, editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, 1904.
"I now go on the principle that a journalist isn't entitled to friends, or an editor, either." — New Yorker founding editor Harold Ross, in a 1941 letter to Brendan Gill, future author of the memoir "Here at the New Yorker," reprinted in "Letters From the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross" (The Modern Library, 2000).
"[O]nly a seriously disturbed person would sincerely wish to have an editor for a friend..." — author George V. Higgins in his 1990 book "On Writing."