Brendan Behan Quotes

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.

I love Star City - it is my home.

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

I think I was made to live in New York. I love it.

I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there.

London has become a real home.

I love London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris - there are a million places I could imagine I like, but N.Y. is home.

I grew up without a television, so when I went to L.A., it was sort of, you know, a lot to take in, but it actually suited me more than where I was from, so I sort of had that 'home away from home' feeling, and L.A. is definitely home now.

New York is who I am.

I've lived a lot of my life in London, so I often feel that I am a Londoner.

I grew up in New York.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that's full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there - and that's one of the reasons I love coming home. It's very grounding.

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

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

I'll always be a Brit abroad, and I love London so much, but New York is my home.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.