I was going to do what so few in life ever do, I was going to accomplish my dream and work for a place that people would actually be jealous…

7. You flirt with ordering something new, but you always know what you’re going to get. You know what you like and you don’t apologize.

Living in Crown Heights would be akin to re-entering the closet, five years after having emerged from it. “Could you do that?” my mother asked me.

I watched myself dissolve, becoming permanently incorporated into something else, forgetting what I was, with these brand new cells.

8. A Shirley Temple drinking fountain.

Have you ever cheated and regretted it all the more so because afterward you just kept on running into him — at the coffee shop, in class, at parties?

Picking up crumbs off of yourself and eating them without giving it a second thought.

When Streep tried out for ‘King Kong,’ Dino DeLaurentis told his son, in Italian, that Streep was too ugly for the part. Meryl shocked the sh*t out of him when…

“Two years, you’re still getting sorries? I don’t think so, that’s a long time for sorries. That’s like saying Happy New Year in October. ”

Because when we are saying goodbye to someone, we’re not just talking to them, we’re talking to the person that we are at this very moment.

1. Wear something spectacular that nobody else can see.