Berlin

“A disgusting city, this Berlin, a place where no one believes in anything.”

“I'm guided by a signal in the heavens First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.”

“And now we come to the most lurid Underworld of all cities — that of post-war Berlin. Ever since the declaration of peace, Berlin found its outlet in the wildest dissipation imaginable. The German is gross in his immorality, he likes his Halb-Welt or underworld pleasures to be devoid of any Kultur or refinement, he enjoys obscenity in a form which even the Parisian would not tolerate.”

“Berlin stimulates like arsenic.”

“Berlin has become the paradise of international homosexuals.”

“It was Berlin itself he was hungry to meet; the Berlin Wystan had promised him. To Christopher, Berlin meant Boys.”