88 Quotes by Jimmy Breslin

Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

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

There is no other reason for his fame.

The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public.

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12/20/86.

The number 1 rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover