To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted
I always react to news immediately. That's my business.
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.
This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.
I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief
If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.
The best piece of advice that I have ever received is from my mom. And she said, "Do you, boo boo. " That is forever going to be the best advice.