New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
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Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
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 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.
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."
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."
When people ask me if I have any spare change I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.
I love the polite drivers in La Jolla. At an intersection . . . most expensive car goes first.
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.
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...
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...
It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash.
There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.
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...
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.
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