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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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“In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!”
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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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“In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon
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“New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1976). “Kicked a building lately?”, Crown
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“I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.”
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“People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.”
Source : Uncommon Law (1935) "Is it a Free Country?"
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“It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.”
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“It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.”
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“Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without The wild winds shout, But no, it is they - it is they.”
Source : Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1842). “Halloween: A Romaunt”, p.13
