Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan.
New York Quotes
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.
New York, New York: a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the battery’s down. The people ride in a hole in the ground. New York, New York – it’s a hell of a town!
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
It costs a great deal of money, but New York is filled with people who seem to have it. Are they rooked? I am inclined to doubt it. They pay huge prices, and out of those huge prices come huge profits, but they actually get something for their money. They get a kind of luxury […]
On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.
New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move.
The town is too full of distractions to be comfortable to artists; it is comfortable only to performers. Its machinery of dissipation is so vastly developed that no man can escape it – not even an author laboring in his lonely room, the blinds down and chewing gum plugging his ears. He hears the swish […]
The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear.
Tip to out-of-town visitors: If you buy something here in New York and want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don’t need your name and address.
