152 Quotes by Pete Hamill

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

Writers are rememberers.

Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by Prohibition and the Depression, so the news business still had badly paid people who loved it for the life, because every day was different.

Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.