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I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

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

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.

New York is our home.

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

New York is my favorite city in the world.

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.