The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter if you are younger or old. Reading our rich history makes the experience more layered, but it is not a substitute for walking the streets themselves. For old-timer or newcomer, it is essential to absorb the… — 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 Image
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic sense of life. Such a sense doesn’t force us into a somber cone of depression and futility; it urges the opposite. The tragic sense opens a human being to the exuberant joys of the present. To laughter, carnal… — Pete Hamill Copy Share
