It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
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.
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...
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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)
Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.
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...
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)
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...
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.
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.
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.
In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.
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...
Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.