“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 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.”
“...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...”
“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”