“I hate Brooklyn.”
“To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.”
“It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.”
“I heard Amos yell, “For Brooklyn!”It was an odd battle cry.”
“New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness….There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory inTheir skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.”
“Only the dead know Brooklyn.”