I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about..

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work..

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing..

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

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….

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

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

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..

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….

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

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….

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 ….

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

Listen, then make up your own mind..

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

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

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

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 ….

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?.