“Summer had come to sit on New York's face.”

“...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...”

“Even heavy automobile traffic out of New York City on a summer weekend minutely unbalances the earth as it rotates.”

“People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.”

“Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.”

“When daybreak came we were zooming through New Jersey with the great cloud of Metropolitan New York rising before us in the snowy distance. Dean had a sweater wrapped around his ears to keep warm. He said we were a band of Arabs coming in to blow up New York.”