A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake, and behind the facade every type of dubiousness. (Chicago)
Places Quotes
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. (Dame Edna)
Well, at least we won’t have to go back through South Dakota. Apochryphal last words
Spain imports tourists and exports chambermaids.
Winnipeg is like Fargo, North Dakota, without the action.
In calling up images of the past, I find that the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes; yet these plains are pronounced by all wretched and useless. They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support merely a few dwarf plants. Why, then, and […]
New York… that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
I think this is how Chicago got started – A bunch of people in New York said, ‘Gee, I’m enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn’t cold enough. Let’s go west.’
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.
As an American, I can decide on any given day whether or not I wish to think of (foreign) abominations. I need not consider them. I can simply refuse to open the morning paper. In Israel, one has no such choice. There the violent total is added up every day. And nothing can be omitted… […]
