“Girls, now, they wear leggings. As pants. It's embarrassing. Just parading their coochies around town.”

“I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.”

“What's skateable is limitless by design.”

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”

“In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.”

“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you cant go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people w...”

“Every time you shudder from the cold or wrap yourself more tightly in your furs, it reminds me that somewhere, the sun shines more brightly than it does here. You carry it in your skin.”