The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise..

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 t….

Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred ….

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microf….

Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to b….

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to ….

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work..

Listen, then make up your own mind..

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved..

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?.

Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day the….

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 spectacl….

I am a documentarian of what I do..

Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer."….

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people..

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..

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 ….

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered the….

He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical ev….

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art..