"At night [in NYC]…the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story."
- Agatha Christie
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
- John Updike
"Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night."
- Dorothy Parker
