More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.