A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

He also wrote for the NYC-based World-Telegram and Sun and a short-lived successor the World Journal Tribune a merger between the Telegram the New York Herald-Tribune and the New York Journal American. He was a great artist and a great friend. (1973); Repr.

He won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1985 and won the 1974 U. ). National Book Award in category Contemporary Affairs for The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur et al.