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.

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.

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

What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

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.

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.