City Quote by John Updike

New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.

— Glenway Wescott

New York is the only real city-city.

— Truman Capote

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is…

— John Steinbeck

New York is like traveling without actually moving.

— Pierre Huyghe

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and…

— Lawrence Block

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

— Edi Gathegi

New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own…

— Zelda Popkin

New York is home. It's so unique that there is no other place like it.

— Tony Rock

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

— Anonymous

New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.

— James M. Cain

You can survive in New York without much, if you're careful. You have to make your own food at home, and don't buy a…

— Ilana Glazer

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

— Miguel McKelvey