Commitment

"New York is not an escape: it's a commitment, a war. It makes you feel like acting, facing things, changing them. You like it in the way that you like things, say, when you are twenty."

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini

Romeo and Juliet

"I'm in love with New York. I have a passion beyond words for it. Like Romeo and Juliet—love at first sight. It is the most beautiful city in the world. I love the huge mingling of enormous amounts of people, races. The mixture of cruelty and innocence. New York is a piece of mythical reality, as beautiful as the Sahara Desert."
Pier Paolo Pasolini, The New York Times