“If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do”

“Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.”

“I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm”

“A break up is the closest thing to bereavement”

“Was I happy? Maybe more content thanbouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but thats still happy isnt it?”

“It's OK not to be OK.”

“I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it's too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you came int...”

“If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too.”

“If you love someone, why would you want that person to change?”

“I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness, I mean not having $2 for the subway) forces you to walk everywhere and you ...”

“It hadnt always been this way, thats a clich, but it is a clich for a reason. Its not like anyone starts a relationship with nothing to say to the other person. No-one wants to feel like a complete...”

“Wriggling around, two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his girlfriends nether region I wrestled a fifty free.”

“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...”