Paul Beatty Quotes

New York is a weird place.

I grew up in New York.

I always give respect to and pay homage to New York, because I don't feel like I would be the player that I am today if it wasn't for New York City. It gives you a certain edge, a certain toughness just growing up in the city.

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

Everyone's expectation of New York is so big, and then you go, 'Oh, it really is like no other place on Earth!'

New York City is a big city but a small city when it comes to theater.

L.A. will never, ever, ever, ever be my town. It'll never be my town. It's not New York.

I come from New York. It's busy. It's populated. It's noisy. It's loud.

It was always my dream to live in New York.

I'm in a New York state of mind

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.

I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

You haven't lived until you died in New York.

It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that there is so much going on in this city. I like walking around or taking the subway, thinking about all the history here, looking at the architecture and all the people; of course, the museums. It's tough to find a better place to live.

He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

New York City is my playground.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.