Top 10 Quotes by Joseph Mitchell

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

Joseph Mitchell

Spiritual, Art, New York

Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.99, Vintage

I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.

Joseph Mitchell

New York, Home, Cities

The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

Joseph Mitchell

Baby, Loneliness, Men

Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

Joseph Mitchell

Water, Mixing, Whiskey

Joseph Mitchell (2012). “Up in the Old Hotel”, p.411, Random House

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

Joseph Mitchell

Waste, Illusion, Found

Joseph Mitchell (2016). “Joe Gould's Secret”, p.66, Open Road Media