Pete Hamill Quotes

“That was it. To be a rolling stone. In the romantic places of the earth. Ready for a fight, a frolic, or a feed. And since I was Irish, since I was Billy Hamill's son, since I was from Brooklyn: a drink too.”

“I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.”

“It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.”

“I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.”

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

“If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.”

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

“The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.”

“I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.”

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