Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.

The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right.

If you know what to do to reach your goal, it's not a big enough goal." - Bob Proctor

Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.

Your mind is your world.Your heart is your nature.Your soul is your universe.Your life is your creation.

Truth is always right, observing it guarantees us victory in life.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

Life doesn't need to be justified or judged.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.