Ah! Some love Paris and some Purdue. But love is an archer with a low IQ. A bold bad bowman and innocent of pity. So I’m in love with New York City.
New York Quotes
I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
New York City – It’s a city where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.
Now he emerged from the hotel and walked up Eighth Avenue. Two men were mugging an elderly lady. My God, thought Weinstein, time was when one person could handle that job. Some city. Chaos everywhere. Kant was right: The mind imposes order. It also tells you how much to tip. What a wonderful thing, to […]
New York City isn’t a melting pot, it’s a boiling pot.
I never used to go to the beach because I come from Brooklyn. We only had Coney Island, which was an awful beach. There were rumors during the war that enemy submarines – German subs – came into the bathing area at Coney Island and were destroyed by the pollution.
It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.
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 […]
