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

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

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….

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

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….

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

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….

The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, ….

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful..

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….

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

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city..

Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read..

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century..

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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….