“ Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his lov… Henry Miller
“ To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal strait between Manhattan Island and her favorite suburb offers the specious ill… Jacob M. Appel
“ Your technique means nothing if you're not using your talents for the betterment of humanity. Gene Dunn
“ It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin. Kate Christensen
“ Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students. Imogen Binnie
“ 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
“ Maybe it wasn’t rational, but she didn’t like the idea of Leo invading her little world. Yesterday, Brooklyn had belonged to her. The Long Island ’burbs where she’d grown up had felt far away from the… Sarina Bowen
“ The immediate difficulty, Florence realised while riding the high rail back to Brooklyn, was how to break the news to her parents, even if she could convince them that being a chaperone to six foreign… Sana Krasikov
“ Who is she, after all? Not a member of the Party. Not even a Russian...What can she do, really, but watch the ginger-haired sacrificial lamb get slaughtered? One wrong move and Florence herself might… Sana Krasikov
“ Florence, listen to me carefully.... Take whatever that agent offers you. Give him what he wants, and don’t ask too many questions. Get yourself an exit visa as soon as you can. Then leave! Disappear.… Sana Krasikov
“ Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city. Corey Ann Haydu
“ …you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life…We are all crazy and crazed. Joan Rivers
“ …but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power. Joan Rivers
“ Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true. Joan Rivers
“ Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion. Joan Rivers
“ The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it. Joan Rivers
