New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.
New York Quotes
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.
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.
