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

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

I always react to news immediately. That's my business.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

Journalism schools are good to get a job, but I don't know what else they are good for. I don't like the word "journalism" to begin with. It's news reporting, and that consists of using your two feet. The only lesson, then, that you could give people is how to climb stairs, because there are no stories on the first floor.