Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
Russell BakerIn an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
Russell BakerAnticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Russell BakerIreland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
Russell BakerThe early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.
Russell Baker