Pete Hamill quotes

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

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.

In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'

One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'The Iceman Cometh' in the Village when I was a kid, before I ever became a newspaperman, and realizing that the world I knew could also be the subject of some amazing stuff.

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

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.

Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.