“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”
“Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.”
Protest against the police brutalization of Abner Louima (29 August 1997)[citation needed]
That's what a reasonable person, a person with good manners, would do.
Interview with Marion Finlay, "Hockney on … politics, pleasure, and smoking in public places," FOREST Online (28 July 2004)
2000s
“Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.”
2000s, Letter to the American people (2002)
Context: Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.
Apocryphal; see New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/17/obituaries/herbert-von-karajan-is-dead-musical-perfectionist-was-81.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
“People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.”
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
"The Will Arnett Interview," Television Without Pity (2005) http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a1005/index-1.html
2005