I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972..

Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York..

Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor….

The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserli….

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between th….

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York..

I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my profession is that I was a cop in the Ne….

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime..

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie..

In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever, The French Co….

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was to….

Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but….

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national cultur….

Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and….

You can survive in New York without much, if you're careful. You have to make your own food at home, and don't buy a lot of clothes..

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticat….

I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers..

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does..

In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country a….

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street ….

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and gui….