Woody Allen

Woody Allen wax figure at Madame Tussauds

"New York is a hellhole. A miserable excuse for a city. A place where no one in his right mind would live. (And it’s not just because my ex-wife lives there.) The truth is, the only thing I like about New York is Woody Allen, and apparently, a lot of New Yorkers don’t like him. Go figure."
Paul Whitefield, Los Angeles Times

Manhattan Promise

Roosevelt Island and Manhattan skyline

"From this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise—that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving."
Amor Towles, Rules of Civility