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

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

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

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

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.

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

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