“People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way.”

“Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.”

“Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living”

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”

“Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.”

“When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry."New Orleans. I'm so sorry.That's not the way it was before,not the way it's supposed to be. When people find out you're from New Orleans, they're supposed to tell you about how they got drunk there once, or fell in love there, or first heard the music there that changed their lives. At worst people would say: "I've always wanted to go there."But now, it's just: "I'm sorry."Man, that kills me. That just kills me.”