The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]

No man is a devil in his own mind.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.