227 quotes found
“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”
“In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.”
“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you cant go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people w...”
“When you're single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they're like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed.”
“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does”
“New York, I thought, was a city defined by its flaws. In every possible way, its virtues were overwhelmed by its vices, as Jekyll was by Hyde. Yet it was these very vices that gave the city its cha...”
“Not even a cat was out. The rain surged down with a steady drone. It meant to harm New York and everyone there. The gutters could not contain it. Long ago they had despaired of the job and surrende...”
“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but its not, its like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so theyre one step ...”
“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a ...”
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”
“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”
“He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night,...”
“New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.”
“The thing that impressed me then as now about New York was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poo...”
“Vulgar of manner, overfed,Overdressed and underbred;Heartless, Godless, hell's delight,Rude by day and lewd by nightCrazed with avarice, lust and rum,New York, thy name's delirium.”
“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”
“It's a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.”
“New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.”
“Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.”
“The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.”
