Quote by Tom Spanbauer

“I know New York but New York doesn't know me.”

— Eve Halimi

“LA is very different from New York. New York is a huge, dense metropolis. LA is a bunch of small towns all running into…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.”

— Tom Spanbauer

“California is a small woman saying, 'Fuck me.' New York is a large man saying, 'Fuck you!”

— George Carlin

“All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.”

— Vivian Gornick

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and…

— Jack Kerouac

“Good morning, the city says. Fuck you.”

— Marie-Helene Bertino

“In New York, boy, money really talks - I’m not kidding.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I am not sure I love New York.”

— Édouard Levé

“New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.”

— Christy Hall

“What makes this city different is that nobody expects to be in one place for ten minutes. Everybody moves all the time. Seven nameless…

— Don DeLillo

“It's never the same city. Your city isn't even the same as my city, I bet.”

— David Levithan