“My ideal date would involve a park or rowing in those little boats on a lake.” —Aja Naomi King
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” —John Lennon
“I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.” —Jack Pierson
“When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.” —Robert Osborne
“I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.” —Barack Obama
“People get hung up on political stuff, but I don't care. Black, white, gay, transvestite-just stand up and make something of yourself." —Naked Cowboy
“I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.” —Martin Scorsese
“I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.” —Ira Glass
“And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.” —Daniel Libeskind
“To be a police officer in New York requires so much more than just we, as a citizen, need to walk around. Your job is to put yourself in this place where a horrible event has happened and try to figure it out. That's what you do, day in and day out. You have to have a certain distance to it. You can't let yourself go too far into it.” — Bill Camp
“Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.” —David Byrne
“I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys.” —Tim Burton
“Spring and fall in New York are the best seasons here to get out and about. I like the little park in Dumbo between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridge.” —Paul Dano
“You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.” —Donald Trump
“Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.” —Angela Lansbury
“If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.” —Edan Lepucki