Kate Simon quotes:

A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient ...

Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.

Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.

The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.