“It seems like being from here is the most obnoxious thing I could have done, but also it’s probably that I can’t walk down Second Avenue without mentioning my first kiss, when I sneaked into Lit Lounge at 14.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com
“The permission to be fed up with each other is the highest mark, to me, of intimacy and trust.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com
“There is always something pulling you back during those brief stints elsewhere: the energy, the pacing of time, family, the golden handcuffs of a good deal on an apartment.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com
“The casual anonymity is another facet, the adjacent face of the diamond of intimacy, the way small talk and cute sayings on mugs of coffee are joyously cynical, like how standard it is for spouses to joke about hating each other, or for parents to mockingly roll their eyes about their kids.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com
“In the vast mythology of New York, it’s the place you go to become who you always wanted to be.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com
“Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“Look, this is LA, and, in LA, we don't leave garbage on the curb like it's pre-Jesus Rome, and we don't have rats.”— Rosa Handelman, Alex Cole, Tommy Dewey, imdb.com
“As much as I'd like to see the two of you living it up in a warm, tropical setting, I, I would just miss you too much. So I've decided I want you to stay.”— Peter Mehlman, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“What will NY152 say today, I wonder. I turn on my computer. I wait impatiently as it connects. I go online, and my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You've got mail. I hear nothing. Not even a sound on the streets of New York, just the beating of my own heart. I have mail.…”— Nora Ephron, imdb.com
“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”— Nora Ephron, moviequotedb.com
“England at present wields the destinies of the commercial world, and her power is concentrated in London; but if this country can maintain its union, there are those now within the hearing of my voice who will live to see New York what London is now.”— Millard Fillmore, books.google.com
“I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.”— Jeff Gordon, articles.latimes.com
“The name ‘Glen Spey’ comes from the Scottish ‘glen’ for valley and ‘spey’ for spa or healthy spring.”— The Observer, scnyhistory.org
“New York has closed itself off to the young and struggling… New York City has been taken away from you … So my advice is: Find a new city.”— Patti Smith, amazon.com
“Frances: 'I'm poor.' Benji: 'That's actually offensive to poor people.'”— Benji, Greta Gerwig, Michael Zegen, Frances, amazon.com
“The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich.”— Mickey Sumner, Sophie, amazon.com
“There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong clothes, having the wrong roommate, saying the wro…”— Candace Bushell, amazon.com
“If you grow up in New York City and you’re paying attention, you have a better spidey sense than anyone. It prepares you well for the rest of the world. You learn to listen to the hair on the back of your neck.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, variety.com
“I think the thing I love best about New York is that the city pushes us all against each other. You are on the same train as the guy who's gonna sell hot dogs, as the guy who's going to a multimillion-dollar meeting.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, gq.com