It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfil him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
New York Quotes
On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.
New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience – if they did they would live elsewhere.
The city is like poetry: it compresses all life into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
A marriage, to be happy, needs an exterior threat. New York provides that threat.
A third-rate Babylon.
Is New York the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban nights are like the nights there. I have looked down across the city from high windows. It is then that the great buildings lose reality and take on magical powers. Squares and squares of flame, set and […]
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I’m concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.
