The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.