An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.