There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.