“If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose”
“...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else."-Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
“But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.”
“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their funny money.”
“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.”
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”