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A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,_ she said. __ was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich__he city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising__nd one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana__: __oney is the petrol of life.

Titus, have you ever had your heart broken?___h, son. How could you ask a man who used to play the blues a question like that?___ow long does it take to go away?___ broken heart?___eah.___here__ no precise formula, Sammy.___ust give me an estimate.___ good rule of thumb is at least half the time that you were in love. Or twice the time. It all just depends.

She likes the mystery of that changeover, those fifteen minutes of sundown when the streets and trees and people and parked cars are delicate and immediate, every sound and smell and movement amplified by the lowest light or the lightest darkness. Even a city that__ broken and dirty can, in that time, be divine and intimate.

Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dreams of stardom, Fame Shark is a thoughtful, hilarious and moving love letter to his family and the Lower East Side of New York City.

Night is the permanent revolution, that of the globe. Every sundown the streets change, becoming sinister or libidinous, or, for that matter, longer or narrower or unexpectedly twisted. The familiar rebels against those who presume to know it. The map is altered and time is telescoped. Daylight restores things to their normal condition, or is that really their normal condition? The map of the city wrinkles and unfolds, wrinkles and unfolds.

While the layman sees an opportunity and decides to take it, the professional criminal through the use of deceit and treachery, is able to create opportunities. This individual not only actively searches for a crime to commit, the professional criminal assembles teams of similar people and generates situations in which crime can be safely perpetrated in a controlled environment for maximum profit.

ERIC: What are you always writin' in that book anyway?RODNEY: Poetry.TYRONE: Poetry?Rodney stops sketching and sentimentally flips through a few dozen pages of sketches and handwritten poems and notes.RODNEY: Poetry and pictures. Snapshots of our lives developed in the darkrooms of our souls."From CENTRAL PARK SONG -- a screenplay

What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a magic castle girdled by water? Its very touch of jumbled jaggedness, its towering-sided canyons, are its magnificence.

We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I chose Anna for the person I became in her presence, and in this respect, my love for her was a more selfish one

Everyone needs beauty. Even beautiful people"From "Central Park Song

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.