When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.
After years of mocking L.A. for its smog the people of Denver are now coughing out of the other side of their mouths.
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The tanned appearance of many New Englanders is not sunburn - it is rust.
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
Chicago was started by a bunch of New Yorkers who said "Gee I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty but it just isn't cold enough."
There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.
Cities get built out of poet's dreams.
The city's full of people who you just see around.
Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a headache since you arrived but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because...
Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spend in New York.
I have no respect for gangs today. None. They just drive by and shoot people. At least in the old days like in West Side Story the gangs used to dance with each other.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35 000 a year. Obviously that doesn't include food or lodging.
There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.
The trouble with all these other countries is they're all being run by foreigners.
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.
A small town is usually divided by a railroad a main street two churches and a lot of opinions.