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

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

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.

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

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.

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.