Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.

Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.