Jimmy Breslin Quotes

"The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him."
-Jimmy Breslin in Funerals quotes.

"The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented."
-Jimmy Breslin in Politicians quotes.

"The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit."
-Jimmy Breslin in Politics quotes.

"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."
-Jimmy Breslin in Jobs quotes.

"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you drinking in the first place."
-Jimmy Breslin in Drinking quotes.

"Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."
-Jimmy Breslin in Teachers quotes.

"The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money."
-Jimmy Breslin

"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."
-Jimmy Breslin in Journalism quotes.