Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific.

I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know, when I'm writing about rush hour or Central Park, it's not a black Central Park, it's just Central Park, and it's not a black rush hour, it's just rush hour.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

I've never been in this part of Trenton before. I don't feel comfortable driving around buildings that haven't got gang slogans sprayed on them. Look at this place. No boarded-up windows. No garbage in the gutter. No brothers selling goods on the street. Don't know how people can live like this.

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Cities are about juxtaposition.

I live not too far from it in New York City.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

Good and bad make up a city.

East Side, West Side, all around the town

I appreciate the city of New York just embracing me, and Brooklyn in general.