Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

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

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.