We don't usually look to take on the Legislature over something. We make our living working with them.

We don't usually look to take on the Legislature over something. We make our living working with them.

It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great read more

It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great Neck. We're poster children for the New York State Democratic primary voters.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of read more

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively.

We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively.

The evidence is clear. This reaches the top — the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of read more

The evidence is clear. This reaches the top — the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be read more

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

There's no substitute for playing the game. You can do all the drills you want . . . you have read more

There's no substitute for playing the game. You can do all the drills you want . . . you have to teach them technique but you have to put them in situations where they must use that technique.

Let us be clear, the proposal before the General Assembly is the fruit of compromise. It cannot be a perfect read more

Let us be clear, the proposal before the General Assembly is the fruit of compromise. It cannot be a perfect solution.

A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.

A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.