Brooklyn Quote by Kate Christensen

“We undid a button, turned out the light, and in that narrow bed we built the great city - ... until the sun rose…

— D. Nurske

“the infinite Manhattan night.”

— Rachel Cohn

“THE CITY WAS ASLEEP. New York, the nervous, keyed-up city, was almost at rest two hours past midnight. Watching the sleeping stone under the…

— Laura Z. Hobson

“I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery…

— Sylvia Plath

“A young man propped up a ladder to capture photographs of the scene, yawning afterward. Death in Manhattan must be a rather boring affair,…

— Lydia Kang

“Manhattan is full of ghosts most of which confront you late at night while underground”

— Donal O'Callaghan

“I remember my favorite nights were just getting drunk and walking around outside the East Village kicking over garbage cans. Just the night. Just…

— Legs McNeil

“We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.”

— Don DeLillo

“The night life draws me in like a moth to a flame and not even fear could convince me to not walk amongst the…

— Z.L. Arkadie

“I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy…

— Pete Townshend

“From the night into his high-walled room there came, persistently, that evanescent and dissolving sound - something the city was tossing up and calling…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking.”

— Arthur C. Clarke