I Love NY: 10 Best Quotes

10. "Even the vegetables in New York are better. It’s not just the vegetables, of course. I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance."
Nora Ephron, Heartburn

9. "New York blazes like a magnificent jewel in its fit setting of sea, and earth, and stars."
Thomas Wolfe, The Web and the Rock (Voices of the South)

8. "The gateway of America, and the most dazzling expressing of its lingering diversity, is still the city of New York."
Jan Morris, Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America (Travelers' Tales Classics)

7. "I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline."
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

6. "New York is one of man's greatest achievements."
Edward Robb Ellis, The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History

5. "If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself."
John Lennon, John Lennon in His Own Words

4. "I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life -- to me, it's like a great woman."
Woody Allen, Woody Allen: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)

3. "To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying."
P.G. Wodehouse, America, I Like You

2. "Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump — better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky."
Texas Guinan, Texas Guinan: Queen of the Night Clubs

1. "I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again."
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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