The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

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

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

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

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.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.