When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. – Jimmy Breslin
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. – Jimmy Breslin
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. – Jimmy Breslin
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. – Jimmy Breslin
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)