“(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”

“When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.”

“If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish”

“I am so surprised by New York City. I thought New York must be ugly and unpleasant, you know, I saw all those movies about New York….But New York is beautiful and the people here are really nice.”

“Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else -- it's such a great city [New York]. L. A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.”

“New York is basically a new version of York. But York just got a cathedral…”

“New York, New York. Big city of dreams, but everything in New York ain't always what it seems.”

“People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.”

“When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.”

“So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.”