Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla..

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago..

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what….

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18..

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day..

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story..

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing….

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of flee….

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face..

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience pa….

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage..

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ag….

Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building….

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone e….

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future..

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun..

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons..

A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And alw….

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly..

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious..

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history….