John Updike Quotes

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

New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.

I don't like L.A. I've always said that, and people hate on me for it. I don't really like the city.

New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.

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've actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.

Only one thing is certain: every time I return to New York from Nashville, I walk down the streets with a silly grin, just smiling at everyone I see and, more often than not, receiving a suspicious glance in return... but honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way, y'all!

It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.

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

There are many sides of the urban life that I dislike, but there are many sides I am deeply in love with and attached to.

I came over here with $100; it was 1983 and I just ended up staying. New York at that time was very inexpensive and it was very easy to get a job. We lived on Staten Island and you could get cheap rent. It was a good time to be in New York.

I was raised in New York, so that's the greatest city in the world to me, but if you take that out of the equation, then London is my favourite city, and I'm a huge fan of Dublin as well.

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.

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.

I don't want to deride London because I have such a huge affection for it, but New York lets you move on and grow up.

I like Atlanta a lot but no place beats my house. I just like the Black success in Atlanta. I loved being surrounded by that.

Living in New York, no big deal. I am loving New York - there is something about the energy.

Growing up in Manhattan has given me a thick skin.

That's what I love about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another. And that's what I hate about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another.

You go to school in New York because you want New York and the life that comes with it.

When I was in L.A., I thought I would never leave.

I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years.

I just feel like I'm made for New York.

'Hanna' has grown up in mother nature's beautiful wilderness and that's what she knows. So for someone like me who has always had a life in the city, it was a chance to look beyond social conventions.

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