City of Dreams

Last night I was out at dinner, it was crowded, I looked around at all the people and this occurred to me:

People come from all over the world to live in New York and then when they get here they act and dress the way they think New Yorkers do. And then New York is formed by all of these people thinking it is a certain way, and then it becomes that. They collectively turn it into it what they think it is. It is nothing on its own. It is truly, ahhem, a state of mind.