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

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.

People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.

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.