The Reporter Is The Daily

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 And The One Who'd Rather Write A Good Story.

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.

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 Is 18 Or 20 Stories High, Everyone Will See That It Tilts.

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 Else Has Been.

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 That Enslaved Him.