Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

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

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

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

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.