Life Quote by Alison Bechdel

“New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far from New York), perhaps because…

— Terri Windling

“A little while back, I won a couple of contests and was crowned the Funniest Kid Comic in all of New York. Not just…

— James Patterson

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois suburban middle…

— Junot Díaz

“Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet…

— Amor Towles

“New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.”

— Elizabeth Winder

“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail…

— David Carr

“the boiling human chaos of metropolitan New York”

— T.R. Pearson

When I was younger, my view of New York was really wide-eyed and excited. I've lived here all my life.

— Frankie Cosmos

“The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to experience here,…

— Sari Botton

“Ever since, New York has existed for me simultaneously as a map to be learned and a place to aspire too--a city of things…

— Adam Gopnik

Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was…

— Robert Mankoff

I loved experiencing city life in New York.

— Quvenzhane Wallis