“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”

“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. (Robert Moses)”

“Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.”

“Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.”

“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”