“There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.”
“On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.”
“In 1979 the New York Times reported that in many {New York Subway} stations, the signs are so confusing that one is tempted to wish they were not there at all - a wish that is, in fact, granted in numerous stations and on all too many of the subway cars themselves.”
“New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.”
“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.”