Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.