New York Is Not a City, It’s a World

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

 

“New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move.” David Letterman

“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” Mark Twain

“Here we are Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity.” Harry (Joe Pesci), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

 

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.” Le Corbusier

 

“I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.” Milos Forman