“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”
“People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way.”
“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”
“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.”
“I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question.”