New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kind of a playground.

New York is big, fast, energetic, and has the most and best of everything. While it can push the senses, it's the most convenient place to live. It's much easier for a ninety year old to live in New York City than in the suburbs. NYC is the best mass assisted-living facility on the planet.

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.

New York is kind of a mythological city in may ways.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.