Pete Hamill Quotes

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.

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

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

I don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna, but for me, New York is the ideal because of the diversity here. 'Billy on the Street' is really informed by that.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

L.A. is such a melting pot.

I lived in New York City for six years, and I was always amazed at how diverse everything was.

Where I'm staying, near Lafayette Street, Bowery, and Houston, you get different people with different spirits, and that's what I like.

New York is like a melting pot: so many different people, so many different cultures.

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

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

Cities are about juxtaposition.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

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.

While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj.

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

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.