Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies..

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the w….

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red..

The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechan….

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting..

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy..

One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friend….

What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we can only imagine. These plac….

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the mornin….

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings..

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a livi….

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library..

They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to the show. In the Navy Yard, I c….

The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that a….

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town..

There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their fac….

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark..

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable..

My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the ….

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accou….