The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell BakerThe charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.
Russell BakerThe biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
Russell BakerAfter that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sense that any happiness that came my way might be the prelude to some grim cosmic joke.
Russell Baker