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

- Jimmy Breslin

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…

- Jimmy Breslin

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…

- Jimmy Breslin

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

- Jimmy Breslin

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

- Jimmy Breslin

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

- Jimmy Breslin

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…

- Jimmy Breslin

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…

- Jimmy Breslin

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…

- Jimmy Breslin