New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.
Amsterdam Vallon: New York loved William Tweed... and hated him but for those of us trying to be thieves, we couldn't help but admire him.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study. [Adolph S. Ochs - Publisher New York Times]
Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.
Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.
I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.
In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.
If 'The New York Times' says it, it must be true.
I love New York City.
New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.
As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.
I'm privileged that I'm an artist.
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
A great artist is never poor.
I didn't want to be an artist.
