Yorker Quotes

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.