Between about 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. the life of the city is civil. Occasionally the lone footsteps of someone walking to or from work echo along the sidewalk. All work that has to be done at those hours is useful–in bakeries, for example. Even the newspaper presses stop turning forests into lies. Now and […]
Cities - City Quotes
The city is a circus of the senses.
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
I didn’t say I wouldn’t go into ghetto areas. I’ve been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If you’ve seen one city slum you’ve seen them all.
The great big city’s a wonderous toy just made for a girl and boy.
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?
New York, the hussy, was taken in sin again!
