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“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”
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“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”
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“I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.”
Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013. 
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“Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.”
Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.28, Da Capo Press
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“I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.”
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“Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.”
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“The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.”
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“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.”
Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.
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“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
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“My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.”
