“Our country is failing to live up to its promise of opportunity and fairness. It used to be true that if you went to college and you worked hard, you could count on having a decent middle-class lif...”

“It's not how long you see something. It's how you intensely you feel it"From Central Park Song: a Screenplay”

“I wish I knew how to get you back. And apparently fate won't let me give up"From Central Park Song: a Screenplay”

“Let the park live in you until it sings you a song.”

“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...”