Dream Come True

"Of all the things that have happened in my life, I'd say that living in New York is the closest thing to a dream coming true. I don't profess to really know America. I haven't even visited 'America' in any real sense. Back in Britain people ask me what America is like. I say, 'Well, I only really know L.A. and New York.' Then they ask me which I prefer. I tell them New York. Then they ask me what the difference is. I say, 'In New York, at least they stab you in the front.'"
Ricky Gervais, T Magazine

Urbane Familiarity

"In New York, then, you are met everywhere by a sort of urbane familiarity. The man who does you a service, for which you pay him, is neither civil nor uncivil. He contrives, in a way which is by no means unpleasant, to put himself on an equality with you."
Charles Whibley, American Sketches

Past, Present, Future

Donna Karan International Headquarters

"New York is what I stand for — the past, the present, the future."
Donna Karan, quoted in NBC New York