Note to self Quote by Rick Riordan

“Manhattan can act as a giant suction cup, sucking you into its folds. The city breeds no wimps and makes no apologies.”

— Kate Rockland

“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Donal O'Callaghan

“To live in Manhattan is to be persistently amazed at the worlds squirreled inside one another, the chaotic intricacy with which realms interweave...”

— Jonathan Lethem

“But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer...”

— Michael Connelly

“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that…

— Michael Cunningham

“They knew that to survive in Manhattan he would have to know something of bitterness before he arrived.”

— Mark Helprin

“The Manhattan District bore no relation to the industrial or social life of our country; it was a separate state, with its own airplanes…

— Richard Rhodes

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

— Garrison Keillor

“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

“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

“Entering the underground was the most powerful thing I've ever done. That's where you finally learn to see.”

— Dark Night Beacon