E. B. White Quotes

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.

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

I really love New York, and I've lived here for a long time. I know not just the different neighborhoods but the different kind of class cultures in New York from the up-and-coming, down-and-out kind of artist to the powerful worlds of finance.

New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.

I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you have so many nationalities that are actually mixed together - it's so multicultural.

In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.

I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

I've been to New York many times, and I've always noticed that there aren't that many French tucks around.

Because I'm such a die-hard New Yorker, I was skeptical of Montreal being a New York double.

I'm attracted to wilderness in any sense. Which is why I'm attracted to New York in a way, because I feel like it's a wilderness of people and textures. Just like, there's so much life and richness here. And you can get lost in it.

New York is just an energy. There's a beauty to the way it's laid out: the architecture, the way the planning is. It's huge, but you really do get to experience more than your own existence here. It's kinda hard to isolate yourself from different types of people, different types of ideas or communities.

New York taught me everything.

New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.

Pittsburgh was a wonderful place to grow up - diverse and complex, one could go from one culture to a completely different one in just a few blocks. It was a whole world in one city.

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!'

It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.

New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

I'm obsessed with New York. I just find it so remarkable. You really treasure this city when you go to different countries and you see that there is no mix. When you get back to the city, it's such an exciting place.

When I moved to New York, I feel like a lot of things widened within my perspective and as I spend some time here - as everyone does when they're that age or a young person - [you] figure out your own ideals or figure out the way you fit into society a little bit more than you did before.