Life Quote by Elizabeth Wurtzel

“I had never seen anything like New York, and its newness held the promise of my future: dense with the experience I craved -…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the…

— Mohsin Hamid

“I was just sick, beaten, in a city of millions, of suffering by myself. I was twenty-seven going on sixty-five. I should have received…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Manhattan, When I Was Young,”

— Carole Radziwill

“There’s no much I didn’t know until I was 30 years old. It’s a bitter sweet truth because I wasn’t exposed to much and…

— Niedria Kenny

“All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.”

— Vivian Gornick

“My exuberance isn't entirely food related. I have been so relieved to find that the city in and of itself is not enough to…

— David Rakoff

“What a thing it is to live in New York City. To move here and not know a soul. A clean slate, a chance…

— John Kenney

“Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's…

— Stephen King

“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep…

— John Hodgman

“There is a certain type of person who just won't be happy unless she lives in New York at least once in her life.”

— Lorna Graham

“I’d been wrong about the ways we move past the versions of ourselves that no longer fit. I’d thought it involved running, as far…

— Laura Dave