Ed Koch Quotes

I want to come back as me.

It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.

I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line.

I think you're cute when the power goes to your head.

My crazy's working a lot better than your sanity.

When I'm writing I get easily bored.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.

Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.

Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.

Oh, good. Okay, I'd like to get more sleep before I have to figure out how we find a Sith Lord in Washington.

Plans make dreams reality.

Not only is happiness not money, it is not even like money.

Superfast beings shouldn't piss off the comics geek-girl.

And like a good neighbor, Alpha Centauri is there.”Touched by an Alien

AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITYFor every star in the skySomeone is holding his ground.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films, I see it as a sign of weakness.

The shock of recognition is a moment of excitement that shakes the soul. It may be hard to describe, but like other forms of love, you will know it when you feel it

What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?""Over my dead body.""Could be, Tim, could be.

We lifted up and then bobbed."Back! Pull it back!" (Christopher)"It's hard." (Kitty)"The ground is harder!" (Christopher)

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

We'll always have Paris.