“...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...”

“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”

“New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.”

“True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.”

“Leave it to a New Yorker to put a bunch of trees in one place and call it wonderful.”

“New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness….There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory inTheir skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.”