It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.
I love the fact that I get something new to do almost every day and have new challenges.
I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.
Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.
My new iPhone, I'm obsessed. My iPod. I love all the Mac crap. AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.
I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.
Embrace each day with a warm heart and a big smile, because every gift of a new day is truly a big blessing.
Why should you live in the past when the present already has everything that you need to start a new beginning?
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
