“The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.”
“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 is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.”
“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.”
“In compulsively keeping myself out of view, I was participating, without realizing it, in a rich New York tradition. Loners and shut-ins and hermits are what keep New York City from imploding. If all the people who never leave their apartments in New York City suddenly left their apartments, the city's infrastructure would crumble.”