• That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

    Salman Rushdie: That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
    Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books