Quotes About New York

P.S. 10, a school in Brooklyn, New York

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

All those children sent on trains to the Midwest—collected off the streets of New York like refuse, garbage on a barge, to be sent as far away as possible, out of sight.

New York is gray and slushy and miserable for months. But

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.

There are 7 billion people on the planet. Of these, a mere 17 million have the privilege of living in the New York Greater Metropolitan Area.

I had been working there for several months [in New York], in that climate of intellectual openness which is so astonishing to an Australian...

One of these days I'm going to write a book about living in New York—in a sixteen-story apartment house complete with families, bachelors, career girls, a ninety-year-old Village Idiot and a doorman who can tell you the name and apartment number of every one of the twenty-seven resident dogs. I am so tired of being told what a terrible place New York is to live in by people who don't live there.

I am so tired of being told what a terrible place New York is to live in by people who don't live there

In London you shoo them away by talking to them. In New York talking to them would just get you their life stories

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.

Health clubs aren't healthy. In New York City, which has the most stairs of anywhere in the country, people pay money to go to a health club and use a stair master. When you live in a city, that has nothing but stairs and you pay money to use special stairs, that is not healthy behavior. It's f***ing PSYCHOTIC!

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished.

New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.

New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.

My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.