To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.
~ H.G. Wells
I love quotes about New York City, especially when I've been away for a few days & despite everything would rather be here than anywhere else. The "everything" is how nice to stay in a house, with plenty of rooms & a pantry & a screened porch, bathrooms, ice that refills itself, cars. But then I get home & my cat missed me & my books missed me & I can see my whole house from anywhere in it, so no one can creep up on me through a basement window. Also, it was a hundred degrees & a thousand humidities in Virginia where we were visiting Johnny's wonderful family & chilly when we got off the train at Penn Station at 2 this morning.