The Columnist Murder Quotes

“New York,” said King, sententiously, “is a huge village with no town pump, no general store with cracker boxes, no sewing circle. People don’t know their neighbors, so they can’t hang over the back fence and gossip. But there’s a human craving for gossip that has to be satisfied, somehow. That’s what made Tommy’s column catch on so fast. And now it burns its own smoke. All kinds of people slip him tips, and gags. He told me once how a bishop tried to get him to print the dirt on another bishop—professional jealousy.”
― Lawrence Saunders, The Columnist Murder

“Marriage is like prohibition: only the poor respect it.”
― Lawrence Saunders, The Columnist Murder

“The promenade was almost clear of stragglers now; the standees meekly confined within the plush ropes, like bunches of human asparagus.”
― Lawrence Saunders, The Columnist Murder