“Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft”

“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”

“I lived in fear for decades. I learned that you can’t wait around for it to go away before you make your move, only when you make your move will the fear leave.”

“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”

“It's so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world...Leaving feels too good, once you leave.”

“Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other.”