Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cit...
Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally,...
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.
If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish
The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor airships, alas.
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it...
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.
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.
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land...
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.
The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.
Twists, turns and double crosses in literary theft quickly expand to threaten the globe in: THE SLUSH PILE BRIGADE. At its core, the book is a solid thriller. It has clearly defined stakes and goals f...
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