God is a name we give to love.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

God is a name we give to love.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time.