The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.