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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.