I think reporting in England is a load of filth, and that's why I'm going into the newspaper business there.

To the Financial Times Paris correspondent in 1979, as cited in "The Goldsmith File", Financial Times Weekend (19/20 October 1996), p. 9. First part also cited by Andrew Rawnsley in "Hobby-horseman of the apocalypse" The Observer (20 July 1997), p. 4

The magazine Goldsmith launched in London, Now!, proved short-lived.