(28 quotes found)
“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”
Jimmy Breslin
“Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.”
“The number 1 rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.”
“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 marvellous 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.”
“I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.”
“The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money”
“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 becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something.”
“The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.”
