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.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

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.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

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

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