New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
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Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and thanks to television you can shop in bed.
Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
The city's full of people who you just see around.
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.
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.
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...
Cities get built out of poet's dreams.
When people ask me if I have any spare change I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.
This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.
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...
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 asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."
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.
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.
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."
It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.