America Quote by Graydon Carter

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we…

— Graydon Carter

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable…

— Graydon Carter

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much…

— Graydon Carter

“Lobster-both-ways is popular tonight. The preparation is easy enough. Take a two-pound lobster. Kill it with a sharp chef’s knife straight between the eyes.…

— Graydon Carter

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to,…

— Graydon Carter

Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for…

— Graydon Carter

A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food…

— Graydon Carter

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

— Graydon Carter

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

— Graydon Carter

New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now…

— Graydon Carter

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're…

— Graydon Carter

'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.

— Graydon Carter