Disappointment Quote by Willem Lange

“The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself as a…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom…

— A. Lee Martinez

“I've set the vast majority of my books in New England because that's where I live. I love this part of the country the…

— Judith Arnold

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

— Elaine Stritch

“Transferring in haste, I felt a curious breathlessness as the cars rumbled on through the early afternoon sunlight into territories I had always read…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Humour is the courtesy of despair”

— Chris Marker

“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

Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible…

— Matt Taibbi

“I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to…

— Anonymous

There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not…

— Eliza Coupe

“Your country baffles me: a luxurious unharmed lotus land in which great hordes of handsome dynamic people either wallow in deep gloom, or play…

— Herman Wouk