The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

There are no liberals behind steering wheels.

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.