“ 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
“ Ten years have passed and every day that I walk throughout the city, I feel honored to be a part of it - and atom in the blood of a beating heart belonging to the most wonderfully diverse, smart, crea… Melisa Singh
“ She was so cool, as she knew, ankles crossed at the puckered hem of granite gray sweatpants, and she also knew I was watching from the open doorof the B train—watching her pose in apparent comfort at… Kristen Henderson
“ ERIC: What are you always writin' in that book anyway?RODNEY: Poetry.TYRONE: Poetry?Rodney stops sketching and sentimentally flips through a few dozen pages of sketches and handwritten poems and notes… Zack Love
“ When we're done, I'll be where the night never stopscradling a bruise that's shaped like youwondering why sleep never came to mewondering how I still dreamed Alicen Grey
“ …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
“ The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy… Joan Rivers
“ I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive. Joan Rivers
“ When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you. Joan Rivers
“ Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust. Joan Rivers
“ It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything — staying in motion because sooner or later tho… Joan Rivers
“ Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. Joan Rivers
“ I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left? Joan Rivers
“ People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made. Joan Rivers
