Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

We're all controlled neurotics.

Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn . . . then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable.