Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.
We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.
My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
I haven't smoked marijuana since I was at NYU.
I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It's just part of who I am.
If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden.
At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.
I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.
When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.