If it ain’t broke, it ain’t breakable.
New York Quotes
New York is where you can get the best cheap meal and the lousiest expensive meal in the country.
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.
On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.
New York is simply inconceivably rich – richer than all the capitals of Europe put together, with all the lesser towns of America, save perhaps one or two, thrown in for good measure. Is wealth merely flamboyant and stupid? Not necessarily. It may also be luxurious and beautiful. There are more beautiful things in New […]
New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
A real New Yorker is someone who thinks that if you live anywhere else, you’re just kidding.
Recall Berlin on its dismal plain, Paris and London on their toy rivers, Madrid on its desert, Copenhagen on its swamp, Rome on its ancient sewer and its absurd little hills, and then glance at Manhattan on its narrow and rock-ribbed island, with deep rivers to either side and the wide bay before it. No […]
New York’s a lonely town When you’re the only surfer boy around.
