Thirteen years I took on this last book.

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.

The catacombs where ghostly bodies lie. In the silence you hear the screams go by.

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.

I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.

Pray on, dear one- the power lies that way

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.