“Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.”
“If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.”
“I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.”
“You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.”
“If I can live through the events,” she said, “I can get through the memories.”
“Whatever gets you through the night”