How would you describe New York City?
“New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.”
—Alistair Cooke
“I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid, and it was the only place where my fears were justified.”
—Anita Weiss
“Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary, but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream.”
—Helen Keller
“New York attracts the most people in the world in the arts and professions. It also attracts them in other fields. Even the bums are talented.”
—Edmund Love
“In New York it’s not whether you win or lose—it’s how you lay the blame.”
—Fran Lebowitz
“When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.”
—Bette Midler
“The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.”
—Desmond Morris
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”
—Thomas Wolfe
“One day, there were four innocent people shot. That’s the best shooting done in this town. Hard to find four innocent people in New York.”
—Will Rogers
“This is New York, and there’s no law against being annoying.”
—William Kuntsler
“I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street—just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.”
—Madonna
Each year, maintenance crews at the Statue of Liberty scrape up 39 gallons of chewing gum.