No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.
Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally,...
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people....
I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.
Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan.
In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.
I had grazed along the surface of her actions and made deep judgments. Rejecting someone because you couldn't understand their love, that was a new one. The more I thought about it the longer the shad...
The ghosts of Manhattan are not the spirits of the propertied classes; these are entombed in their names, their works, their constructions. New York's ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the m...
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.
This was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track.
New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.
New York is a sucked orange.
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.