"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."

Urbanism, Years

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"New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it's animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place he's supposed to pee, there's a couch."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

Urbanism, Humor, Society, Observation, Sarcasm

"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."

Italo Calvino, Italian Journalist

Urbanism, Cities, End, Variety, Will

"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand."

Italo Calvino, Italian Journalist

Urbanism, City, History, Observation, Time

"The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Urbanism, Beauty, Design, Chance, Poetry

"Cities must be fun."

James Rouse, American Businessman

Urbanism, Cities, Fun

"Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

Urbanism, Bureaucracy, Creation, Open, Responsibility

"Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Urbanism, Cities, Wonder, Experience, Energy

"Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

Urbanism, Cities, Complexity, Solution, Growth

"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."

Italo Calvino, Italian Journalist

Urbanism, Cities, Order, Traveling

"Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Urbanism, Cities, Time, Literature, Modernity

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"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."

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"The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses--people who were total self-creations."

Identity

"Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in."

Imagination

"Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell."

Acceptance

"All his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved."

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"New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it's animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place he's supposed to pee, there's a couch."

"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."

"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand."

"Cities must be fun."

"Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy."

"Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine."

"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."

"Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure."

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"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."

"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."

"I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about."

"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."

"The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses--people who were total self-creations."

"Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in."

"All his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved."