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.

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

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.

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.

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

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.