Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

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.

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.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.