Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Everybody needs an editor.
You can't edit yesterday's paper.
My parents were Belfast Catholics.
Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.
New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.
There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.
Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?
The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street.
New York is essentially a bazaar, not a Presbyterian church.
I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.
Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.
The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news.
Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.
There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?
Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.
Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.
Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.
Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.
The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia
Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.
The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.
If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.
Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.
I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.
Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.
It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.
There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.
The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.
This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.
Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.
I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.
All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.
The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.
You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.
I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'
Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.
Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.
I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind.
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.