“Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke i...” — Pete Hamill Quote

“Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by Prohibition and the Depression, so the news business still had badly paid people who loved it for the life, because every day was different.”

“New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.”

“He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.”

“I would rather make a bad film which does well at the box office than a good film which does badly.”

“There are more ways to make 'Room' badly than well.”

“I want really badly to just be funny in a movie but be close to myself.”