Pete Hamill Quotes
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.
