“You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.”
“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”
“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.”
“You can always tell a car door, no other door sounds quite like it.("New York Blues")”
“...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...”
“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.”