“When I am in the country I wish to be alone, and when I am in London I wish to be alone; but in London I can be alone.”— Max Beerbohm
“San Francisco is a city where people are never bored, because they are always reinforcing their major idiosyncrasies.”— Herb Caen
“I love New York. I love the multiculturalism of it. I love the fact that you can be a weirdo, and nobody cares.”— Hope Davis
“In Los Angeles, you can have the city of appeal and the city of smog. You can have the city of blessed sunshine and the city of awful traffic.”— Patrick Dempsey
“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense was somewhere down around number seventy-nine.”— Otto Friedrich
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people imagining themselves according to other people's ideas.”— Elizabeth Hardwick
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people imagining themselves as characters in a movie.”— Tama Janowitz
“I have a love-hate relationship with the city of New York. I love it, and they hate me.”— Robert Klein