New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.

And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of one’s wildest hopes, protector of one’s deepest privacies. It was half insane with...

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she’d never thought of, to show...

Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it’s smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it’s a sociological study.[Adolph S. Ochs – Publisher New York Times]

New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.

If you want it badly enough, it’s yours.

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.

Some three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his household gods up town, as they say in New York. He had been living ever since his marriage in an edifice of red...

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

And I’m not just talking sweaters, hats, and walking sticks. I’ll stop first in the Himalayas and prowl the Landour Bazaar.”Lynn Steward ~ A Very Good Life

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She...

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York...

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down like bomb-blasted rivers of glass from these undreaming towers of...

Those who walk the talk get the work.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

New Yorkers love the bigness — the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which...

I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life — a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister...

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

You’re telling me a shape-shifting demon just walked out onto Fifth Avenue and blended in with the crowd?” I asked. “Hailed a fucking cab after tearing everyone to pieces down here?

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn’t come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

So…Now that we got that over with, let’s get back to love at first sight, Evan said. Not infatuation at first sight…Love. With a capital L, he clarified.Love? Heeb asked, playfully pretending not to know...

There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It’s a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It’s about...

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.

Six month of sitting home, six month of doing absolutely nothing but watching TV, going out, sleeping, getting drunk and sleeping again. Oh no, wait, I was busy with something, I was doing some renovations...

people actually grow up in New York.

„w Kalifornii nie trzeba mieć domu, bo nigdy nie jest zimno” mówi Slim i śmieje się radośnie. „Rany w życiu nie widziałaś takich ślicznych słonecznych dni, że przez większość roku nawet nie potrzeba płaszcza ani...

You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.

It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn,that Bridge was too much for me.

I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.

It is a fact of big cities that one girl’s darkest how is always another’s moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was – and is – home plate.

now that the recalcitrant forsythia has at last decided to come and blurt out springtime in petalled fountains of yellow. In spite of reams of papers to be written, life has snitched a cocaine sniff...

As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the extension of the city began to assume a theoretic air, where poplars grew beside the pavement (when...

People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new.

New York! I say New York, let black blood flow into your blood.Let it wash the rust from your steel joints, like an oil of life Let it give your bridges the curve of hips...

Bernier turned in her chair, smiled, and shook their hands. Dana’s heart skipped a beat as she stood inches away from one of New York’s most glamorous and adored women.

I’m an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.

Dio, che stupido era stato a lasciarsi andare alla collera! Non era così che sarebbe riuscito a proteggerla. Perché, se non poteva averla, almeno avrebbe fatto di tutto per tenerla sotto la sua ala protettrice,...