The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

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.

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

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

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.

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