"One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years"
Tom Wolfe
"Gold is money, everything else is credit."
J.P. Morgan
"I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it"
Will Rogers
"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story"
Agatha Christie
"I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline"
Ayn Rand
"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless"
Simone de Beauvoir
"A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe"
Le Corbusier
"When it's 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When it's 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles"
Neil Simon, Bronx-born Pulitzer Prize-winner in drama
