Don Herold Quotes

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.

New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But there's no hustle and bustle, no street life.

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

New York taught me everything.

Having lived in a big city like Mumbai, I feel it gives you another personality in a way.

I love New York. I love how integrated it is, how everybody lives together.

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.

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

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

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

I love New York. I love the people. I love the anonymity.

I grew up in New York, I love New York.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

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 is full of crazy people, and I like that.

New York is a place where people have strong convictions.

In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

Everything in New York is a fight. It's a fight to get on the subway. It's a fight to go to CVS. It's a fight to get a cab. And eventually, it wears you down.

I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.

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!'

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