“Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves around than any other city in the world.” PeopleWorldHumorFunnyMovingInterestingCitiesPsychologyNew YorkHigherCurrentsNew York CityJournalPercentagesSurveysAbnormalCities In The WorldAbnormal Psychology Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book
“A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.” PersonsHas BeensMatterStoriesStreetsNew YorkWallNewsDetermineAvailableEveningPostsJournalHandfulNew York TimesNews StoriesWall Street Journal Author:Walter Cronkite
“I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.” BookChristianReadingCitiesStreetsSpecialNew YorkWallMagazinesPlusNew York CityJournalNew YorkersSkepticResidentsWall Street Journal Author:Timothy Keller
“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsKindTwoFactsHouseDifferencesFictionFailingWrittenNew YorkExampleBuildingBrokenSummerTablesGreenWinterExperimentsMessMaking A DifferenceJournalBroken DownVermontShackLeviathan Author:Paul Auster