New 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.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.