Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

Listen, then make up your own mind.

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all

Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

Discover where and what makes you come alive and make a deliberate decision to live there.

You’re mad, ” he said in a low voice, “if you think I would leave you now. I’ll see you safe and well no matter what it takes.

Freedom cannot recognize as law the commands and doctrines of other human beings.

Even a chameleon needs the proper amount of suction.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

Life is made up of compromises.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.