top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures."
Standard
Customized
More
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
Author Name
Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
Media
"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."
Driving
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
Nation
"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father."
Family
"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
Travel
"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
Life
"It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself."
Media
"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."
Kids
"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."
Friendship
"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
Habit
bottom of page