Carson McCullers Quotes

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

There are a lot of interesting differences between Boston and New York in general, and I think they're sort of heightened in Long Island.

I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.

Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.

One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?

New York City has always had more in common with Paris or London than with Cincinnati.

I am most interested in people and the human form.

My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.

I'm from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I'm not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we're all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.

In about 2002, I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, to Red Hook.

There's so many funny things to say about being with Charlotte. I've worked on a few bits about it - not to be indiscreet but because the shock of culture and values is so interesting.

When I first got here, I thought L.A. sucked. I hated it. I had this pretentious Manhattan thing. But now I've made such a life here, and I'm so happy here. They're just really different places. I can't really compare them because there's great things about both of them.

I am a completely different person off the field, and my friends and family can vouch for that.

Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.

In the U.S., women smile more than men. In the U.K., there's no difference between men and women.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there, but it's really hard to make it into a Las Vegas version of it because it doesn't look at all like Las Vegas.

San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.

I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.

I haven't seen too many similarities between Montreal and American cities.

No offense to Boston, but I was glad to get out of there. I think it's just because I'm from Philly. Honestly, the blue collar side of each are pretty similar in ways, but something about the makeup of your brain, Philly versus Boston. It's a lot different, in weird ways.

There's a difference between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Brooklyn and Queens. There's a difference.

Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower.

Most cities are the same.