I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.
I peeled off La Brea and went home and instantly made a reservation to come back to New York. Essentially, I fired everybody that was in my life, my agent, my lawyer, my manager, my girlfriend and came back to New York.
If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.
New York is a fantastic city.
My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.
I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.
New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.
The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
I love working in New York theater.
I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.
The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
Miami's never been more than a spit from New York.
I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity.