“Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other.”

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”

“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.”

“ 'I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' " - Lib McGovern”

“An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.”

“City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.”