Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless. [Miranda]

There are a lot of good women in New York.

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.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.