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.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.