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.
- Pete Hamill Quote

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 Quote

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
- Pete Hamill Quote

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 Quote