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

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

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.

I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.

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

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.

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.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

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