"I think most journalists are pretty lazy, number one. A little lazy and also they're spoon-fed information, such as t…"

"If you're a child of store owners, if you're brought up in a store, you learn good manners. You have to be genial, we…"

"Sometimes it's good to be an outsider, especially as a journalist."

"Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, without fuel — only worse."

"He seemed now to be also the embodiment of the fully emancipated male, perhaps the only one in America, the man who c…"

"One way to hold a woman is not to hold her."

"Words that warmed women, wooed and won them, snipped the final thread of inhibition and gratified the male egos of un…"

"Sinatra brings out the best and worst in people."

"All the Way; All or Nothing at All. This is the Sicilian in Sinatra; he permits his friends, if they wish to remain t…"

"He is what in traditional Sicily have long been called uomini rispettati — men of respect: men who are both majestic …"