Quotes by : Russell Baker

After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God....

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned....

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's....

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public,....

When you're the only pea in the pod your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.....

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing....

Americans like fat books and thin women.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office....

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress....