We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.

Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by Prohibition and the Depression, so the news business still had badly paid people who loved it for the life, because every day was different.

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

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.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.