Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. |
Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were. |
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. |
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. |
The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented. |
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. |
The number 1 rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. |
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. |
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. |
The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public. |
The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands. |
The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money |
There is no other reason for his fame. |
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. |
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you drinking in the first place. |