The concrete runway at Warsaw’s Miedzynarodowy airport is coming to pieces. From bumpy landing to bumpy take-off, you spend your time in Poland looking at bad concrete. Everything is made of it – streets, buildings, floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, window frames, lamp posts, statues, benches, plus some of the food, I think.
Places Quotes
There are certain places, among them some of the most impressive and beautiful in the world, that call for only a single dose, repeated perhaps the next morning. If nothing else, it is a tribute to their potency. Even the Parthenon, even the paintings in the Prado, are not to be seen each day, and […]
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
The spring came in Venice. There were flowers all the day long everywhere, and music all the night; the swallows and the doves were happy in the cloudless air; the sweet sea wind only blew softly enough to lift the hair of the women standing on the wet marble stairs to meet the boats of […]
Karachi, the Americans say, ‘is twice the size of Chicago cemetery and twice as dead.’
In Boston they ask, “How much does he know?” In New York, “How much is he worth?” In Philadelphia, “Who were his parents?”
South Carolina is too small for a republic, and too large for an insane asylum.
What was the use of my having come from Oakland, it was not natural to have come from there, yes, write about it if I like or anything, if I like, but not there, there is no there there.
Approaching Adelaide we dismounted from the train, as the French say, and were driven in an open carriage over the hills and along their slopes to the city. It was an excursion of an hour or two, and the charm of it could not be overstated, I think. The road wound around the gaps and […]
Nelson Algren says living there (Chicago) is like being married to a woman with a broken nose: there may be lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real.
