Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
John GuntherThere are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
John GuntherNew York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.
John Gunther