Lucy Sprague Mitchell:
There are so many New Yorks that you can always find the special one that fits your special pattern.

Anais Nin:
New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it.
It is essentially a city of rhythm.

Judy Blume:
No place has delicatessen like New York.

Katherine Neville:
If you must live in a city, New York is the only city in the world.

Agatha Christie:
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Amanda Cross:
New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.

Leonore Fleischer:
New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left.

Kate Simon:
The New York waiter...knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.

Shirley MacLaine:
New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.

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