I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.