What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young..

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out….

People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness ….

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

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

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..

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

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….

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

Anything that isn't writing is easy.

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….

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….

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..

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

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….

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