The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with..

I have not been a success, and probably never will be..

What always was must always be..

Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's….

Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy..

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else….

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza..

My marriage has worked because I am not around much..

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything..

I was born in the Chi fo sho' and raised there till I was like 15. I then went on the road with X [DMX] and then moved to New York. I've moved to L.A….

Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would co….

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling..

No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, wi….

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me..

How can you live in the Northeast?.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..

There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else..

I like to do something I fear..

The things which must be must be for the best..

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to ….

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find..