[There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think wh….

And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dus….

I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would gain an understanding as to why….

The glamour of it all! New York! America!.

I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech sinc….

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York..

I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instanc….

Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital wo….

Fracking is our biggest enemy right now in the U.S. Actually, not just in the U.S., because all our water systems are interconnected. Whether you're ….

In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York..

I love New York. I love how integrated it is, how everybody lives together..

I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, ….

I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines o….

For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that hou….

How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emerge….

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to al….

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

I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to be fixed, you know, an itch to be scratched. I was i….

I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they….

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performanc….

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth..