About Russell Baker: Russell Wayne Baker is an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982).
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too n...
