Badge of Honor

"I'm a New Yorker. My badge of honor rests on my irascibility toward strangers."
Doree Lewak, The New York Post

The Point of New York

"I overstate things to stay alive. This is the point of New York. I completely love and trust this city but I know the moment I stop being angry I'm finished forever.”
Don DeLillo, Mao II

Proud New Yorker

"I'm from New York. I don't drive. I don't know how to drive. I don't know how to do something that teen-agers can do, and I’m proud of it. That’s how much of a New Yorker I am."
Susanna Wolff, The New Yorker