The Library Is A Place Where Most

Frank Sinatra Was The Voice Of The 20th-century American City.

My Ambition Was To Embrace Those General Qualities That Ernest Hemingway, A Former Newspaperman, Once Said Should Be Present In All Good Books: 'the Good And The Bad, The Ecstasy, The Remorse And Sorrow, The People And The Places And How The Weather Was.'

The Only Way To Fight Nostalgia Is To Listen To Somebody Else's Nostalgia

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 Assassinations, Wars, Catastrophes Break On Their Editions.

Today There Are A Lot Of Novelists Who Seem To Be Writing To Be Reviewed, Not Read.