What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

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.

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

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

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.