Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

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

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

I always remember to go on the Staten Island Ferry because it's the most amazing view of New York. And it's free! You see Ellis Island, and it conjures up something of that great moment: you know, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It's staggering.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I find inspiration for my line of jewelry from traveling and from my lifestyle. I have three collections: New York, Palm Beach, and Paris.

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

Once, when I was playing a nude scene in an indifferent play in New York, a critic wrote, 'Diana Rigg is built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses.' Do you think that's fair?

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

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

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.