“My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.”

“No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.”

“Dublin housing prices are a lot like New York ones, except that in New York, you get New York for your money.”

“New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American”

“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]”

“And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.”