One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams
It's a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.
East Side, West Side, all around the town,The tots sang "Ring-a-rosie, London Bridge is falling Down;Boys and Girls together, me and Mamie O'Rorke, Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New...
If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn...
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.Of course, th...
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.
New York is such an awful place. No wonder it's so crowded. No wonder it's almost impossible to leave.
When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place. Visitors and even natives rarely use the words urban character or environme...
In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters of the white arch, one was greeted by the sounds of bongos and...
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.
Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important...
I mean it, I said. You're in danger.Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - on...
Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough
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