Journalism schools are good to get a job, but I don't know what else they are good for. I don't like the word "journalism" to begin with. It's news reporting, and that consists of using your two feet. The only lesson, then, that you could give people is how to climb stairs, because there are no stories on the first floor.

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.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

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

I always react to news immediately. That's my business.

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

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