“Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.”
“Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.”
“If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet”
“Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.”
“No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.”
“New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.”