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.

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

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.

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

You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.

Gratitude is a prayer of an appreciating heart for the great gift of life and its endless treasures.

Perhaps it's better to find joy in the rubble rather than celebrate in ignorance.

Annabelle was practically standing on my back. It was like wearing an Annabelle backpack.

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

Elvis is dead and I don't feel so good for myself.

We are not a creature of the media, so we are not depending on the media publicizing us to make us successful.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.