“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.”
“New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.”
“New York. The world's most dramatic city. Like a permanent short circuit, sputtering and sparking up into the night sky all night long. No place like it for living. And probably no place like it for dying.("New York Blues")”
“Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to”
“I'm a world citizen with a New York set of balls.”
“Summer had come to sit on New York's face.”