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Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.John Gregory Dunne
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New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the EastJohn Gregory Dunne
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Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.John Gregory Dunne
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Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.John Gregory Dunne