Ioana Gheorghe

“He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.”
― Donald Barthelme

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
― John Updike

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick

“I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.”
― Phillip Roth