Now folks, all I know is what little news I read every day in the papers. I see where another wife, out on Long Island, here in New York, shot her husband. Season’s opened a month earlier this year. Never a day passes in New York without some innocent bystander being shot. You just stand […]
New York Quotes
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.
I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A fine rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows, I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened, Then Baxter and Calabro, Davis and Eberling, names falling into place As droplets fell through the dark. […]
Never let the poor and destitute emigrant stop at New York – it will be his ruin.
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York.
