More and more too, the old name absorbs into me – Mannahatta, ‘the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.’ How fit a name for America’s great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, […]
New York Quotes
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation.
I had to move to New York for health reasons. I’m very paranoid and New York is the only place where my fears are justified.
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
It is as if all American appliances dreamed of being cars while all French appliances dreamed of being telephones. (the difference between New York and Paris)
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan.
It is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal. Its politics are used to frighten children. Its traffic is madness. Its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it – once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no other place is good enough.
New York, New York: a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the battery’s down. The people ride in a hole in the ground. New York, New York – it’s a hell of a town!
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
