Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

We're trying to be one of the Number One studios in New York City, which we are.

When you've got a team like that that's just trying to get to New York, it's a great league. The old adage that we beat up our own, that's what everyone has to take into account.

In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.

This is 10 times worse than New York City. The devastation is in a much larger area,