““And so each of the passersby on this corner, every scruffy, oversize, undersize, weird, fat, or bony or limping or muttering or foreign-looking, or green-haired punk-strutting, threatening, crazy, angry, inconsolable person I see . . . is a New Yorker, which is to say as native to this diaspora as I am, and part of our great sputtering experiment in a universalist society proposing a world without nations where anyone can be anything and the ID is planetary.”
![“A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.” quote by John Kenneth Galbraith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d8f/john-kenneth-galbraith-643_comfortable_a-new-yorker-is-what-it-has-always-been_2045290.jpg)
