Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the caretakers for your reinventions.

What makes a person unique is their vision, their belief, their passion, and their flat out unwillingness to give up.

I plunged into him, kissing him like I was flame and he was wood, our tongues igniting

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

I'm like old shoes, I've never been hip.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

I still consider myself a young actor, I'm 34; I still view it as the beginning of my career. You can get infatuated with acting in a way that makes you less an actor than an acting appreciator.

I'm merely a fan of fashion from high end to streetwear, from Nike to Comme des Garcons.