Quote

I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

I want 'Rent' to last forever.

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

I got an apartment for my family so they can move out of this one-room that they were renting out from a family.