Quotes by : Pete Hamill

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There....

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the....

Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with....

One thing I learned in this world? Things don't last. People say they do. They don't. Your friends, they....

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters,....

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.....

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't....