Collette

“Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.”
― Joan Rivers, Enter Talking

“They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind