Hell

NYC manhole (Luca Nebuloni / Wikimedia Commons)

"Hell is New York City with all the escape hatches sealed."
James R. Frakes, The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said

Detox

Store on Third Avenue

"If you get New Yorkers out of the city for two weeks to detox, they are like everybody else."
Pat Schroeder, The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said

Sex in New York

Museum of Sex

"Sex in New York City is different because it happens in smaller rooms."
Sherry Lansing, The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said

Never Sleeps

"New York is the city that never sleeps, which is why it looks like hell in the morning."
Bill Maher, The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said

Things I Can't Afford

Bergdorf Goodman

"The trouble with New York is that it's so convenient to everything I can't afford."
Jack Barry, quoted in The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said