I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
New York: A third-rate Babylon.
On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.
When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
Real, but sometimes beautiful.
I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .
Skyscraper National Park
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.
If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of...
I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.
As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinned a white silk camellia, and draped the Chantilly lace shawl. In that moment, Dana thought of fashio...
New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cit...
Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.
Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Franc...
Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study.[Adolph S. Ochs - Publisher New York Times]