People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men.
Source: Tremendous Trifles, A Great Man (1909).
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936), English essayist, novelist, journalist, poet; He is noted for the detective series with sleuth Father Brown.