The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

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.

A woman's endurance enabled your first breath.

In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.