“Hal was a legend. Most of our readers know him as one of if not the greatest columnist in Cleveland sports history.”
Steve Roszczyk
“No one likes to be ticketed for double-parking. That is no excuse for you to tolerate columnist Carmine Santa Maria's use of profanity and otherwise vulgar and disrespectful language in excoriating traffic enforcement agents who do their duty.”
Paul Browne
“You're not a columnist. You're a reporter (who) writes long.”
Michael Keaton
“Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.”
Ernest Hemingway
“A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician”
Max Lerner
“Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whateverdepths they were once able to plumb.”
Stanley Kaufman
“Over the years from some of the columnists, no question, it has been so anti-Semitic it's unbelievable.”
Ken Harrelson
