Quotes on places
It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.
Steinbeck, John
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
Waugh, Alec
I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.
Ventre, Michael
I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.
Agate, James
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life.
Mansfield, Katherine
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
Phelps, William Lyon
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
Miller, Henry
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!
White, E. B.
The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
Ochs, Phil