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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can’t think of any other place I’d rather die than here.

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it – well, it is dangerous – but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.

I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York.

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

I wasn’t hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

My mother couldn’t have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.