I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.

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.

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.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

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

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.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!