New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

- Alan Brien

When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked i…

- Alan Brien

You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

- Alan Brien

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

- Alan Brien

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

- Alan Brien