Manhattan Quote by Jarod Kintz

“Manhattan, When I Was Young,”

— Carole Radziwill

“To live in Manhattan is to be persistently amazed at the worlds squirreled inside one another, the chaotic intricacy with which realms interweave...”

— Jonathan Lethem

“Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else.”

— Raymond Chandler

“New York. The greatest concentration of human potential in the history of the world. So much so that they had to start piling the…

— Adam Sternbergh

“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.”

— Kurt Wenzel

“New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to…

— Siri Hustvedt

“They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.”

— Dionne Brand

“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

“I could live here forever. Maybe even become real New Yorker someday.”

— Candace Bushnell

“Manhattan can act as a giant suction cup, sucking you into its folds. The city breeds no wimps and makes no apologies.”

— Kate Rockland

“And you can fool yourself if you’re raised in New York. Think that somehow your birthplace alone makes you cosmopolitan. But it isn’t true.…

— Victor LaValle

“We undid a button, turned out the light, and in that narrow bed we built the great city - ... until the sun rose…

— D. Nurske