Media, the plural of mediocrity.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.