"I had no idea it would be me. I'm from New Jersey."
- George Guidall

"If you're in the contracting business in this country, you're suspect. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey, you're indictable. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey and are Italian, you're convicted."
- Raymond J. Donovan

"You see this town pulls my heart strings, I fell in love with the Shrewsbury stars."
- Brian Fallon, Wooderson, The Gaslight Anthem

"The men of Henry Hudson's Half Moon were temporarily disarmed by the fragrance of the New Jersey shore, while ships running farther up the coast occasionally swam through large beds of floating flowers. Wherever they came inland they found a rich riot of color and sound, of game and luxuriant vegetation. Had they been other than they were, they might have written a new mythology here."
- Frederick Turner

"Frankly, in New Jersey if you were to exclude everybody that had any kind of potential conflict you would be excluding a lot of people."
- George Zoffinger

"There are lots of bits of New Jersey that are actually quite nice."
- Neil Gaiman

"Today is a great day for the state of New Jersey. We are keeping the Giants and Jets where they belong."
- Former Governor Richard Codey

"The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the point of bluntness, though not at all unfriendly... the humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating. Affectation is quickly and viscerally registered."
- August Kleinzahler

"When I die they're gunna bury me in Jersey, there ain't no way i'm going back there now.
I'm gunna be a cold-cocked bag of bones weighed down with stones and sunk into the swamps of Jersey."
- Jack Terricloth, My Ancestral Homeland New Jersey, The World/Inferno Friendship Society

"The mosquito is New Jersey's state bird."
- Andy Warhol

"New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples."
- Michael Adams

"To pay the Devils not to play is both ludicrous and indefensible."
- Former Governor Richard Codey

"And if they end it all by the end of tonight,
If the big bomb drops down over this quiet Edison sky,
We'll blow one last kiss to all the beautiful nights like this,
Under the central Jersey sky."
- Brian Fallon, We Came to Dance, The Gaslight Anthem

"Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey."
- Godfried Danneels