“The New York Dolls were toweringly influential. They were way ahead of their time, although always reliably late at the hairdressers.”

“The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.”

“I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.”

“The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).”

“Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.”

“In 1979 the New York Times reported that in many {New York Subway} stations, the signs are so confusing that one is tempted to wish they were not there at all - a wish that is, in fact, granted in numerous stations and on all too many of the subway cars themselves.”