I don't like things that aren't true.
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.
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.
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.
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
Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women,. . . So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.
As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.