I'm as much a part of New York as the rats…I never wanted to live anywhere else. But I'm in my forties now and starting to think, 'Are you really going to stay in the same place your entire life?'

I have my dog, my Yankees, my friends. I love the continuity I have in New York…It's so Sesame Street, so happy tenement! I keep expecting a puppet to jump out of a garbage can.

–Isaac Mizrahi [via CNN}