The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

I am a documentarian of what I do.

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.