Pete Hamill

“I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'”

“We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.”

“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's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.”

“One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.”

“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.”