152 Quotes by Pete Hamill

When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.

You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others.

There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that.

Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'

What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.

I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.