New York can be an intimidating place if you let it. I don't know if I could have done this four years ago. I don't think I was tough enough to handle it. But I've been through a lot, and I know I can handle myself here. It's not like I got traded here and didn't want to come. I came here because I wanted to come here.

Those four districts hold the key on whether more money would come to New York City. They are the ones who should be out front saying we want our proper share. They are the bloc that could force it to happen.

There are too many opportunities in New York. We can't live too far away.

Back then, my air fare on Eastern Airlines to fly from Florida to where Marge was stationed in New York was $16. It was the most important flight I ever made.

I was looking in the back of The New York Times for ads for homes in New Hampshire, and there weren't any, ... but there was this scrunched-up photograph of a supposedly Palladian villa outside of Venice.

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