Russell BakerThinkers

The American is a people who like fat books and skinny women.

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

A Journalist is a person wi th nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

New York City is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

The Object 1s 2oal is to always resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Progress is what people who are planning to do something really terrible almost always justify themselves on the grounds of.

Publicity is a thing which, if one lives by it, one will probably die by it.

Sex is the last important human activity not subject to taxation ...

Spectatorship is too often chosen over living — Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back up and take its picture.