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

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.

The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.