If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, “I took a taxi.”
New York Quotes
Of course, another explanation for people not availing themselves of professional help is that New Yorkers are too disoriented to know they’re disoriented. Anyway, and to the distress of those selling therapy, they don’t want the therapy, even when someone else is paying. A measure of generalized craziness is what makes New York New York.
What else can you expect from a town that’s shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
Ah! Some love Paris and some Purdue. But love is an archer with a low IQ. A bold bad bowman and innocent of pity. So I’m in love with New York City.
I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.
Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
Now he emerged from the hotel and walked up Eighth Avenue. Two men were mugging an elderly lady. My God, thought Weinstein, time was when one person could handle that job. Some city. Chaos everywhere. Kant was right: The mind imposes order. It also tells you how much to tip. What a wonderful thing, to […]
New York City isn’t a melting pot, it’s a boiling pot.
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.
