Hotel Culture Quotes

My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.

London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

From the age of 31, I have lived in hotels.

I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.