Cities Quote by O. Henry

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

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then…

— Reiko Aylesworth

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

— Tea Leoni

“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

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

— John Catsimatidis

“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

“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

“One of the reasons why I liked living in Manhattan was that the city would share your mood the moment you walked out the…

— Jonathan Carroll

“I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows.…

— Mo Hayder

We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely…

— Gaby Hoffmann

New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove…

— Cate Marvin

New York is in my soul.

— Julian Casablancas