Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.
From Pete Hamill
I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of course you'd run the tabloid, especially in New York.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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.
Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.
I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.
I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'
When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.
Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
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