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.

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.

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.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day.

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'

We call for a weapons embargo.

The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.

More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.