30 Quotes by Brendan Gill

The Federal Highway Administration should essentially recognize that later-year funding in the program will be subject to state legislative action, and that happens in many states,

To die quickly in one’s eighth decade at the very top of one’s powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

We pile one skyscraper next to another, so the squirrels could leap from one top to the next, and pretty soon we’re living in the bottom of a well. Psychologically you feel uneasy. Feel in shadow. Something is threatening you. You’re trapped inside something that is beyond the human scale, and none of the things we need, like light and air and the sun on our skins is any longer present.