“We are always the same age inside. ”

“New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.”

“This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.”

“But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.”

“The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.”

“Zeb was kindergarten teacher--a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.”