New York
Quotes

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.
- Louis Kronenberger

It's much better to be a neurotic in New York than in Nashville. There they liked me but they didn't understand me. Here they like me and understand me.
- Stanley Siegel

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.
- Andy Warhol

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
- Simon Hoggart

Lovers in New York don't turn against it.....because of taxes or crime or decaying public services. They do it because their happiness here is so dependent on illusions, and their illusions collapse.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
- Walt Whitman

Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.
- Langston Hughes

Money is made easily by man y in New York; fortunes are acquitted in a day, families go from a shanty on a back street to a brown-stone front in upper New York, but they carry with them their vulgar habits and disgust those who from social position are compelled to invite them to their houses.
- The Reverend Matthew Hale Smith

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
- Don Marquis

Movement in New York is vertical, horizontal, angular, never casual. In Versailles, you bow; in New York, you dodge cabs.
- Boris Aronson