One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.
When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.
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'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.
So, I'm 34. I'm kind of becoming an adult - kind of, I guess. But I know that I am because, the other day, I said to somebody, 'Dude, dude, don't - those are the good plates.
James Brown is the reason I play guitar.
What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.