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.

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

I always react to news immediately. That's my business.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

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.