Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
I love the buildings. They're called skyscrapers. They're the closest thing to an ocean here. But it's an ocean that goes straight up, not flat out. They say that the body of water stretching away to...
Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)
It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.
History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)
We were up the whole night just talking, walking the city. You can walk those blocks forever, take a break on the edge of the fountain, eat pizza and snow cones, awed by the human carnival all around...
Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but to...
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?Why don't you stay sober today?We didn't come to New York to stay sober.
It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.
Do you know how long God took to destroy the Tower of Babel, folks? Seven minutes. Do you know how long the Lord God took to destroy Babylon and Nineveh? Seven minutes. There’s more wickedness in one...
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los...
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.