New York
Quotes

Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about.
- David Frost

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
- Arthur C. Clarke

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 people and crossing of borders, imagination.
- Dr. James Hillman

In its stride, New York takes on one more interior city, to shelter, this time, all governments, and to clear the slum called war. New York is not a capital city-it is not a national capital or a state capital. But it is by way of becoming the capital of the world.
- E. B. White

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
- George Dennison Prentice

It is a communications center, processing and exchanging a steadily larger volume of the world's money, information and ideas; and it is a center that determines a large and growing part of the country's production, investment and labor policies-to say nothing of its taste and culture.
- Gilbert Bruck

It is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal. Its politics are used to frighten children. Its traffic is madness. Its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it-once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no other place is good enough.
- John Steinbeck

It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that new York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.
- Joan Didion