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

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

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

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

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.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.