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.
Source: In NY Times, 11 Nov 1984.
-- Pete Hamill, (Jun 24 1935-____), US journalist, author; He was a journalist for the New York Post; wrote The Gift, 1973 and Flesh and Blood.