Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

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.

Money is a compensation for time spent

When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.

My dad told me that God allows people to make their own choices and doesn’t override their free will. That is why bad things happen. People don’t do the things they should.

One of the things that I'm really concerned about is that people who don't have power are not priorities for people in public life. Maybe it's always been that way, but I see it more starkly now.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.