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

If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

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

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