Quotes by Russell Baker
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Baker, Russell
It was dramatic to watch [my grandmother] decapitate [a turkey] with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with "gourmet" status.
Baker, Russell
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Baker, Russell