Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.

What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?

If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.

'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.

To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.