Jimmy Breslin
Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.Collection: Incompetence
Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.Collection: Baseball
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.Collection: Work
People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.Collection: Morning
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.Collection: Retirement
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.Collection: Hands
The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.Collection: Hands
Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.Collection: Numbers
Journalism schools are good to get a job, but I don't know what else they are good for. I don't like the word "journalism" to begin with. It's news reporting, and that consists of using your two feet. The only lesson, then, that you could give people is how to climb stairs, because there are no stories on the first floor.Collection: School
I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.Collection: Artist
I always react to news immediately. That's my business.Collection: News
Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!Collection: Eye
I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.Collection: Football
The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.Collection: Queens
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.Collection: Ocean