Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality.

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.