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

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 number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal..

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base..

Anything that isn't writing is easy.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!.

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't….

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 interes….

All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirr….

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

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becom….

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

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..

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 agains….

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.

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just p….

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

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank..

Media, the plural of mediocrity..

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

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