A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
New York Quotes
As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.
New York is simply inconceivably rich – richer than all the capitals of Europe put together, with all the lesser towns of America, save perhaps one or two, thrown in for good measure. Is wealth merely flamboyant and stupid? Not necessarily. It may also be luxurious and beautiful. There are more beautiful things in New […]
New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
I never used to go to the beach because I come from Brooklyn. We only had Coney Island, which was an awful beach. There were rumors during the war that enemy submarines – German subs – came into the bathing area at Coney Island and were destroyed by the pollution.
It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.
This is the first sensation of life in New York – you feel that the Americans have practically added a new dimension to space. They move almost as much on the perpendicular as on the horizontal plane. When they find themselves a little crowded, they simply tip a street on end and call it a […]
The morning sun glinted off the towers, twin diamonds in a crowning achievement of mankind: New York City, the breathtaking palace atop that shining city on the hill that is America. At night, the lights of the towers glittered against the scrim of night, a constellation of our own making. You cannot see the stars […]
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
