Amor Towles Quotes

I just can't live in New York anymore.

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

I probably shouldn't live in New York.

I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.

I really love New York, and I've lived here for a long time. I know not just the different neighborhoods but the different kind of class cultures in New York from the up-and-coming, down-and-out kind of artist to the powerful worlds of finance.

I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.

My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself.

New York has everything, so you can do anything.

If I could live anywhere else in the world, I would probably want a place back in New York.

I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.

Believe it or not, I used to be obsessed with shoes. I have maybe 50 pairs... until I moved to New York, when I realized I couldn't walk anywhere in any of them.

Everything in New York is a fight. It's a fight to get on the subway. It's a fight to go to CVS. It's a fight to get a cab. And eventually, it wears you down.

I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.

To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

To live in a city is to be forever flinching.