When You Leave New York You Ain't

Journalism Should Be Truthful And Entertaining. You Know, With News And Important Facts You Can Entertain People Too. Have A Little Humor. Life Isn't All That Deadly All The Time, But While You're Having Fun, Tell The Truth. If Every Word Of A Column Is Deadly Serious, I Can't Read It. It Makes Me Throw Up.

Governments Mostly Don't Do Much. And You've Also Got To Understand The Level Of Incompetence Out There. Nobody Knows What They're Doing. They Just Pose And Act As If They Know And Walk Through Life And Get Away With It.

People Born In Queens, Raised To Say That Each Morning They Get On The Subway And "go To The City," Have A Resentment Of Manhattan, Of The Swiftness Of Its Life And Success Of The People Who Live There.

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.

I Think It Would Be Very Good If Writers And Artists Take A Stand In Electoral Politics. They've Got The Ability To Put Words Together That Might Reach The Ears Of The People Of The City Who Vote.