Alec Downie

“I've done everything from helping old people to pee to taking out their garbage to chasing their escaped pets. We are the poor man's ambulance, and we are also, sad to say, the poor man's priest, our cab the confessional in which people litmus-test their wildest fears and prejudices.”
― Lee Durkee, The Last Taxi Driver

“I suppose that the most heroic expression that I have ever seen was on the face of a certain tough-looking, brutalized, slum-slaughtered woman at Coney Island. She had her arm around a girl child who looked hardly less brutalized and slum-slaughtered - "We is going to have a good time tonight!" the look said.”
― Lorraine Hansberry, To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography

“Vertigo is the fight in your mind between the part that wants to save you and the part that wants to fall.”
― Jordan Harper, The Last King of California

“No You Can't Meet Iggy”
― Kevin Armstrong, Absolute Beginner: Memoirs of the world's best least-known guitarist