Quote by Morgan Matson

“The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.”

— Woody Allen

“At Hartford or New Haven or one of those other places where no one in their right fucking mind would want to live.”

— Stephen King

“When I think of Vermont, I think of Connecticut.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Philadelphia had the musty scent of history. New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage. But Princeton had…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“If you want to live in the farmland, haul your sorry hide off to Pennsylvania.”

— Jeannette Walls

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

— Lauren Oliver

“What better place to look for trash than in America - the land of consumption and waste?”

— Lisa See

“Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal…

— Walter A. McDougall

But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

— Ed Rendell

“From remote and sparsely populated Vermont, Indiana seemed hopeless; a collection of turtle-shooting subliterates--people opposed to evolution, pluralism, and poetry. And yet. Those leaves.”

— Brian Kimberling

“On payday near the entrances to the mines, lines of maimed and debilitated workers begged for handouts. Pennsylvania”

— Mary Cronk Farrell

“Here was a county that had almost burned down. Here was that county moving on. All of these fires could have happened only in…

— Monica Hesse