I am a New Yorker.

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.

Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree.

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.