New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible, because it is large enough to be incurious.
New York Quotes
When people start writing about New York, they tend to go get a thesaurus and find all the synonyms for dysfunctional.
There is little in New York that does not spring from money. It is not a town of ideas; it is not even a town of causes. But what issues out of money is often extremely brilliant, and I believe that it is more brilliant in New York than it has even been anywhere else.
It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.
New York – that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
New York looks as ever: stiff, machine-made, and against nature. It is so mechanical there is not the sense of death.
One man prefers the Republic because it pays better than Bulgaria. Another because it has laws to keep him sober and his daughter chaste. Another because the Woolworth Building is higher than the cathedral at Chartres. Another because, living here, he can read the New York Evening Journal. Another because there is a warrant out […]
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 […]
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.
