The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia. - Pete Hamill 1 Share Now -
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. - Pete Hamill 2 Share Now -
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. - Pete Hamill 3 Share Now -
As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper. - Pete Hamill 4 Share Now -
The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist. - Pete Hamill 5 Share Now -
All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room. - Pete Hamill 7 Share Now -
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.' - Pete Hamill 8 Share Now -
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. - Pete Hamill 9 Share Now -
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. - Pete Hamill 10 Share Now -
