“Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.”

“In his heart he knows first isn’t touching a door knob, or getting to sit in the front row seat by the window, or making it up to the road before everybody else. First is something deep down inside you that you know and feel and nobody can take away from you”

“I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”

“Nobody gets their period for the first time and has a nervous breakdown next to a Kohler toilet. Men have such stupid ideas about menstruation, don’t they, Julie?”

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

“Imagination is what convinces us that there's more to the world than meets the eye. And isn't that the first principle of faith?”