Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

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.

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.

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.

Doors of opportunity are always open around you—you just have to find them.

It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.

Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at

To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.

Things that are real are given and received in silence.

Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.

It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be explained.