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

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.

It is perfectly monstrous, ' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, which will affect people who are still alive and voting.

He hated himself, " Gwen said. "You just got caught in the cross fire.

I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

We should worship as though the deity were present.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

It's time to raise a generation of participants, not another generation of fans.

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.