Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in… — Pete Hamill Copy Share
“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual… — Pete Hamill Copy Share
“He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on… — Pete Hamill Copy Share
More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark. — Pete Hamill Copy Share
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. — Pete Hamill Copy Share
“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter… — Pete Hamill Copy Share
There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set… — Pete Hamill Copy Share
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill Copy Share
This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. — Pete Hamill Copy Share
“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic sense of… — Pete Hamill Copy Share
“The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn’t do what I wanted it to do, I went… — Pete Hamill Copy Share
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the… — Pete Hamill Copy Share
They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to… — Pete Hamill Copy Share
