What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. Russell Baker Read Quote
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost. Russell Baker Read Quote
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. Russell Baker Read Quote
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. Russell Baker Read Quote
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. Russell Baker Read Quote
A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. Russell Baker Read Quote
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 Baker Read Quote
In 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 Baker Read Quote