“Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.”

“The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.”

“The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.”

“... technically, just like with the rings of a tree or Carbon-14, it had to be possible to measure the passage of time by the melting of vanilla ice cream.”

“All things that happen to those who love God, to those who are called by God, are blessings.”

“Once you go alien, you really do never go back.”

“You have enchanted me with a single kissWhich can never be undoneUntil the destruction of language”