Quote by Jonathan Lethem

“We thought of [New York] as a free city, like one of those storied prewar tropical nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and…

— Lucy Sante

“I was born a master of the universe in Manhattan. Not Manhattan, New York City, and not Manhattan, Kansas, but Manhattan, the suburb of…

— Jarod Kintz

“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail…

— David Carr

To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.

— Karan Mahajan

“Here they resided, two worldviews separated only by Fifth Avenue, facing off until the end of time or the end of Manhattan, whichever came…

— Amor Towles

“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

“The Manhattan District bore no relation to the industrial or social life of our country; it was a separate state, with its own airplanes…

— Richard Rhodes

“New York, he supposed, was home—the city of luxury and mystery, of preposterous hopes and exotic dreams.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“the boiling human chaos of metropolitan New York”

— T.R. Pearson

“Manhattan is full of ghosts most of which confront you late at night while underground”

— Donal O'Callaghan

It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a wilderness purchased…

— Michael Cunningham