"City of orgies, walks, and joys!" WALT WHITMAN

"Writhing, uncontrollable city!" SUSAN SONTAG

"A sucked orange." RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"The greatest place on earth!" JOHN LENNON

"The nation's thyroid gland." CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

"A beautiful catastrophe." LE CORBUSIER

"The last true city." TONI MORRISON

"No other American city is so intensely American as New York." ANTHONY TROLLOPE

"It is a miracle that New York works at all." E.B. WHITE

"All the iridescence of the beginning of the world." F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"Everyone in New York has half a mind to write a book -- and does."
GROUCHO MARX

“When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.” BETTE MIDLER

"The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population."
HENRY DAVID THOREAU