“You can try to change New York, but it’s like Jay-Z says: “Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up. There’s nothing you can do.”

“On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.”

“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.”

“I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don't let what some assholes say or do, direct you. In this life, it only matters what you do with it.”

“New York is a nice place.""If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.”

“It’s an old dream that eats me slowly every night at this time it begins and there’s nothing anyone without love can do. ”