Russell Baker
  • Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

  • Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

  • Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

  • Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

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