I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.