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.

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.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

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

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.

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