New yorkers Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in…

— Madeline L'Engle

“In fact, one might make the case that New York would not have shone without its legions of contrary devils polishing the lights of…

— Mark Helprin

“I come by my alarmism honestly. I have learned this custom over the years as I have settled into being a true New Yorker.…

— David Rakoff

“And so each of the passersby on this corner, every scruffy, oversize, undersize, weird, fat, or bony or limping or muttering or foreign-looking, or…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Fear is the greatest enemy of humanity, it paralyses tons and tons of people around the globe.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“No one referred to Fearghus the Destroyer as the life of anyone’s party.”

— G.A. Aiken

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois suburban middle…

— Junot Díaz

“their worry that the city was too dangerous, a concern that frustrated me, immeasurably, because I knew where danger really lurked—in the woods behind…

— Roxane Gay

“Roosevelt was right when he said that we have nothing to fear itself. And our fear can only consume us when we face it…

— Dean Koontz

“The world divides into those who like the managed induction of terror and those who don’t. I do not find terror exciting. I find…

— David Foster Wallace

“We articulate out fears, like children in the dark, giving them names in order to tame them.”

— Anonymous

“Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.”

— Veronica Roth