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

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

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

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

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.

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