Pete Hamill

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.

My parents were Belfast Catholics.

There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.