"Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It’s sterile. It’s nothing. It’s wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they’ve seen New York! … This rural American thing — I’m telling you, it’s a joke."
Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York
"The more steps—either transactional stages, or literally, walking—required, the less attractive the choice becomes"
"Your 20s are weird, but nobody tells you that…Everyone tells you that your adolescence, that’s going to be hard. High school is going to suck. But nobody tells you that your 20s are going to be rough, that basically you’re cast into the real world and told to figure it out."
Zosia Mamet, NYT Magazine, January 6, 2013
