144 Quotes About Nyc

if there’s one dude that everyone on the Upper West Side will welcome with open arms, it’s the fucking jogger.

Undergarments flapped wildly on the fire escapes above, soiled with sweat and blood: private stains, flying high over the city like crests on the flags of a ship.

If I took the nicer subway, it meant I had to go through Manhattan every morning to get there, and that took a really long time. The subway line that ran the short way was the G line, which stopped exclusively in Brooklyn and Queens. That might be the only time the word exclusive has been used to describe the G train.

I’ve found that here in this city, the lights burn ever brighter, but they cast the darkest shadows I know.

This morning I wake to the blue-white light of an approaching spring in New York: the kind of light that promises it will not be this cold forever.

You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of New York City. THE CROWD (1928)

Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties.

I am a different person in NYC. My energy is way different. I just make sense here.

When I was starting out there was no Internet, there wasn't this sense that you could be connected to other writers around the world. And that created a kind of innocence, or parochial quality, even in NYC.