A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

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.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.