Brooks AtkinsonThinkers

Boating is paradise — land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

The Bureaucrat is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

The Camera is a device whose virtue is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

The City is superb at night because their hideous corners are devoured in darkness.

The Good old days is a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

An Idea is always a bit magnetic — Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

A Truism is a tool in communication which builds rapport and builds trust. It helps bind beliefs together.

Writing is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.