Mitch Gaylord Quotes

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons.

I never particularly liked it in New York City.

I hated L.A. when I first got here. Hated it.

I love New York, but I can't deal with the cold and the small space.

I don't like a big city.

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

As a child, we lived in flats, and I was never allowed pets.

Boy, I wouldn't want to live in L.A.

I just don't find New York as my favorite city, if I can say.

I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed.

If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.

I'm not one of those people who walks away and says, "That's a lot better than I thought it was going to be." I said, "No, this is as bad as I thought it was going to be, I didn't like it. I didn't want to talk to anybody."

New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

How I hate everything!

For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

It ain't my cup of meat.

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.