Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

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.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swasatta) cannot arise.

Love is an attraction but not a reaction.

To every complex challenge, there exist a define solution.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

As weird as it is, as much as I love Southern California, the reality is I'm going to be somewhere else next season.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.