Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the caretakers for your reinventions.

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.

The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives.

To be a member of such a crowd ... is not much to be far removed from solitude

You never can give without receiving it.

The secret to life is trusting yourself and loving who you are, just the way you are.

All but God is changing day by day.

Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots

Success always demands a greater effort.