Frank O'Hara Quotes

I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.

To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense.

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

Everything is so convenient in New York.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.

When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

The fact that I live in New York, a city that thrives on accessibility, might explain why I was slow to grasp the appeal of Alexa. Here we have bodegas on every corner, most open 24 hours, in case you need to pick up a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of hot sauce in the middle of the night.

If you spend too much time in L.A., you might start to lose a sense of what's normal.

Growing up in Manhattan has given me a thick skin.