“Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City.”
Walter Lippmann
“I am a NEW YORKER which means i work full time and live my life part time”
Kenneth waters Jr
“Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.”
Douglas Adams
“Each man reads his own meaning into New York”
Meyer Berger
“Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.”
Anthony Weiner
“He left the self-conscious literary demimonde of New York for the quiet infidelities of New England.”
John Heilpern
“I think Katrina made us more aware of the tragedy in New York. One was man-made, one was natural, but they're both a common bond.”
Tony Quaglino