Away Quote by Will Self

New York is just an energy. There's a beauty to the way it's laid out: the architecture, the way the planning is. It's huge,…

— El-P

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just…

— Barbara Walters

It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing…

— Colum McCann

[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just…

— Donald Trump

“New York is a city built upon the cannibalized remains of its own past, constantly changing, constantly the same.”

— Seanan McGuire

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real…

— Silas House

“New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of…

— Henry Miller

“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

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

— Francis Picabia

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to…

— Griffin Dunne

To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't…

— Donald Trump, Jr

“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