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

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.

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

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.