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

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

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

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.

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

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

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.

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.

Just as language no longer has anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

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