urban living quotes

London is a modern Babylon.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

The city is a body and a mind – a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

I go down the street, people see me: ‚Hey, I pity-‚ right on, man, that’s a compliment to me.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That’s why I’m such a city cat.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.