Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

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.

Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving.

There’s no way I can care properly for my children if I don’t first care for myself.

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

It's proper netiquette to send a lot of messages to matches on internet dating websites. NetworkEtiquette.net

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced with cupcakes. Mmm. Cupcakes.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

It's important to know when to take your time and not overspend and overdo things, of course. That's why you get things that can be dressed in a thousand different ways.