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.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

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

Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

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

I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.