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

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

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.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

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.

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.