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Anything that isn't writing is easy

I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

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.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

The Mets lose an awful lot?
Listen, mister. Think a little bit.
When was the last time you won anything out of life?

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

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.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

Shoelaces are the first way society ties up the individual.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.