I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't. So I grew hair under my arms instead.
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.
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Cities get built out of poet's dreams.
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.
There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
The tanned appearance of many New Englanders is not sunburn - it is rust.
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.
The city's full of people who you just see around.
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...
After years of mocking L.A. for its smog the people of Denver are now coughing out of the other side of their mouths.
Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spend in New York.
There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.
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.
Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.
Or a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And sometimes a ghost is a shared thing; sometimes the entire population of a...
When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.
The trouble with all these other countries is they're all being run by foreigners.
It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35 000 a year. Obviously that doesn't include food or lodging.
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."
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