“The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.”
“New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.”
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
“It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.”
“LA is the me city, Ruby said, and New York is the you city. In LA it's fuck me. In New York it's fuck you.”
“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.”