Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.

Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.