Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of something bad.

Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico.

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

Hello again, everybody... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.

Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped.

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

Style is a way of talking about yourself.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.