"Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey."

“I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com

“The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.”

“I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade”

“Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.”

Source : "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.

“History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.”

“Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.”

“New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.”

Source : Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan

“Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.”