New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
I lived in Miami for a while in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.
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When people ask me if I have any spare change I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.
Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.
Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."
This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from tho...
I love the polite drivers in La Jolla. At an intersection . . . most expensive car goes first.
I once saw a pin on a Delta Airlines employee and I asked him what the letters in Delta stand for. He said "Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive."
We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and...
Libraries, museums, universities, everything we designed and built over six thousand years. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. T...
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.
Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash.
On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.
I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't. So I grew hair under my arms instead.
It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.