Critics Quote by James Purdy

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd…

— Wallace Stevens

When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York…

— Henry Miller

There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel…

— Dabney Coleman

Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket.…

— Madonna Ciccone

NYC is a wonderland full of passionate music fans. Once I got over being intimidated by rock critics and finicky hipsters, I realized that…

— Lou Barlow

“To be young, naive, hungover, and lonely in New York City is a rotten thing. To be young, naive, hungover, lonely, and playing bass…

— Mishka Shubaly

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

— Don Herold

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.

— Robert Mankoff

Being in New York, there's so much culture everywhere, and I just love the accidental textures of it: people and buildings, non-stop soundscapes, things…

— Noah Reid

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the…

— Al Franken

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

— Mason Cooley

New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always…

— Phife Dawg