I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.