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 Quotes
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.
This is the first sensation of life in New York – you feel that the Americans have practically added a new dimension to space. They move almost as much on the perpendicular as on the horizontal plane. When they find themselves a little crowded, they simply tip a street on end and call it a […]
The morning sun glinted off the towers, twin diamonds in a crowning achievement of mankind: New York City, the breathtaking palace atop that shining city on the hill that is America. At night, the lights of the towers glittered against the scrim of night, a constellation of our own making. You cannot see the stars […]
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
New York is a sucked orange.
For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. “I don’t see how you stand it,” they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. “It’s all right […]
