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

Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination,....

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

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.....

A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character,....