Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

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

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

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.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.