PICS: New York, the city that never sleeps

Great many things have been said about New York. In the pages to follow we bring you some of the best quotes about the American city and its spirit.

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

-- Tom Wolfe

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

-- Dorothy Parker

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

-- Nora Ephron

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

-- John Updike

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it." 

-- Truman Capote

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -- and does!

-- Groucho Marx

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings... And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

-- Stephen Birmingham

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (1987)

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

-- Ayn Rand

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

-- Edward Rutherfurd, New York: The Novel