"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."

Urbanism, Cities, Wonder, Experience, Energy

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"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."

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"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Urbanism, City, Greatness, Population, Meaning

"She thought of the city at night, of cities at night. Discarded constellations of old stars, fallen from the sky, rearranged on Earth in patterns and pathways and towers. Invaded by weevils that have learned to walk upright."

Arundhati Roy, Indian Novelist

Urbanism, City, Night, Imagination, Imagery

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

Truman Capote, American Novelist

Urbanism, Years

"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

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"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."

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"I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered."

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"Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars."

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"August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery."

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"For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes."

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"The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible."

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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."

"She thought of the city at night, of cities at night. Discarded constellations of old stars, fallen from the sky, rearranged on Earth in patterns and pathways and towers. Invaded by weevils that have learned to walk upright."

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

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

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"I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend."

"I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place."

"I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself."

"When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?"

"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."

"I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered."

"Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars."

"August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery."

"For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes."

"The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible."