“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
“When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. ”
“New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.”
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
“and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.”