Bother Quote by Paul Desmond

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes…

— Louis Kronenberger

The thing about New York stories that many storytellers often forget is that they can take place anywhere in the world. That's because for…

— Cord Jefferson

“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail…

— David Carr

Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.

— Sophie Blackall

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is…

— Jimmy Breslin

Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world.

— Colson Whitehead

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd…

— Wallace Stevens

“And New York City is details too... It's full of people who have no idea they're really just art to other passersby. There are…

— Hannah Brencher

New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual…

— E. B. White

Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.

— Colson Whitehead

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

— Sloane Crosley

“New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as…

— Saul Bellow