People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says ‚Hi‘ during the day.

I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

The city is a body and a mind – a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

I was born in New York in 1904.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

I think what we’ve found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we’re really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late ’70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

It’s no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‚If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.‘ But if it’s open and you’re walkin‘ by, feel free to say, ‚Hello.‘

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

In London, you’ll be walking around and, ‚Oh, there’s the ground.‘ Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that’s good.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

When you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Cyberspace is – or can be – a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

I didn’t play with other children.

It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.

I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn’t serious because I was smart. I wasn’t like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious – like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

Everybody likes a compliment.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.