New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.

New York is the greatest city in the world.

New York is my favorite city in the world.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there

When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.

My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?