The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the caretakers for your reinventions.

Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..

Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms

I have control issues. For sure, no question.

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

I am not a neoconservative. I am pro-American.

The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.