Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

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.

Life could only be lived with a heroic faith.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

His eyes, if anything, gleamed even more bright, having found the treasure he sought.

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.

It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.