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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state.

There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.