Don’t trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.
Media, the plural of mediocrity.
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
What you want to do is not go to work. You’re not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page...
The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Anything that isn’t writing is easy.
Baseball isn’t statistics, it’s Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.
That’s the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It’s just the same enemy – blank paper.
Don’t call me a journalist; I hate the word. It’s pretentious!
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.