New York
Quotes

The city is an addiction.
- Timothy Leary

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
- E. B. White

The city is permanently cruel.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The city of New York is so overgrown that we in the upper regions do not know much more of what is passing in the lower, nor the things which are to be seen there, than the inhabitants of Mexico and Cairo.
- Philip Hone

The city of right angels and tough, damaged people.
- Pete Hamill

The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor airships, alas.
- Vincent Scully

The exodus from New York City limits to the suburbs in the last two decades was nothing less than spectacular and probably represents one of the greatest unattended migrations in human history.
- Dave Marash

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
- Murray Kempton

The intellectual life is why I am a New Yorker. It's why I stay here. I spend my summers in Europe and when they ask me if I'm an American, I say, 'No, I'm a New Yorker.' I don't know about everyone else, but for me that's a positive statement.
- Alexander Alland, Jr.

The only real advantage of New York is that all its inhabitants ascend to heaven right after their deaths, having served their full term in hell right on Manhattan Island.
- Barnard Bulletin