David Rakoff Quotes

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.

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

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

I try to remember what it was like to be a kid in New York. I lived in different parts of my childhood in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, where 'When You Reach Me' is set, and also in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

I've lived in New York City for over twenty years now, and every single day is like a new adventure. At this point, there are many places I'd love to visit, but I can't imagine living anywhere else on the planet.

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

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

Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn.

I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know, when I'm writing about rush hour or Central Park, it's not a black Central Park, it's just Central Park, and it's not a black rush hour, it's just rush hour.

Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people.

I like living in the city. I really don't like the suburbs.

Like 'Sex and the City' - if you're a New Yorker, you knew half the places they were going to. I want 'The Chi' to feel that way as well.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly contingent upon how normal the person living there might be. I don't think you have to look far in any city to see people looking for the right answer in the wrong place.

Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.