In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

One day she asked me: "Is this love?" I said: "If this is not love, then love is nothing!

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

I've been shucked and gone to heaven.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.