Being there Quote by P. G. Wodehouse

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to…

— Anonymous

New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.

— Colson Whitehead

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was…

— Fran Lebowitz

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

— Claes Oldenburg

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by…

— Fran Lebowitz

The conscious decision, early on, was that I was going to live in New York. That was it.

— James Ivory

Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting…

— Robert Benton

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

— Carl Andre

Every politician says New York is the greatest city on the globe. But what good is that if no one can afford to live…

— Zohran Mamdani

I was afraid New York was going to become boring.

— John Wilson

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

— Anonymous