Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.

I’m willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn’t somebody’s thumb.

There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.

The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. - Eighth Amendment, United States Constitution

Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.