“If you're gay and live in New York and don't go to gym, eventually they come for you.”
“If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish”
“Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.”
“New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always...Yes, gay is the word...but frantic. I can't get used to it. They forget death, Basil; they forget death in New York.”
“People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.”
“People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.”