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.

The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

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

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

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.