Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

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

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

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.

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