88 Quotes by Jimmy Breslin

Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

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

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..

What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Anything that isn't writing is easy

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

All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.