City Quote by Gavin Creel

“You know what the trouble is with New York?” she asked me. “No,” I said. “Nobody here,” she said, “believes that there is such…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“There’s something about New York City that gives you permission to just be. There’s no need for pretense, no need for masks. You can…

— Jessica Verdi

Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just…

— Victoria Chang

“Living too long in New York does that to a girl, gives her the false sense that the world is full of interesting people.…

— Maria Semple

“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it…

— Colum McCann

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

— John Updike

The great thing about New York is that you don't have to set out to do anything. Whenever I go without the kids, I…

— Adam Scott

That's the thing about New York, the streets of New York are crazy!

— Dave Portnoy

“New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing…

— James Weldon Johnson

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals…

— Dorothy Parker

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

— Amor Towles

“This is New York City and we can spot a fraud a mile away.”

— Joanna Shupe