“New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.”
“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
“The New York Times Review of Books is toilet paper. Used.”
“When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. ”
“Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.”
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”