When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
New York Quotes
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 […]
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.
If Paris is the setting for a romance, New York is the perfect city in which to get over one, to get over anything. Here the lost “douceur de vivre” is forgotten and the intoxication of living takes its place.
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
