Michael Welch Quotes

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

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

I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

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've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

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.

I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

I used to live in L.A. so, I was always outdoors.

Since I was an adult, I've always lived in the centre of London - King's Cross, Bloomsbury - and never thought I'd leave.

If you spend too much time in L.A., you might start to lose a sense of what's normal.

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

Gray feels like the city.

I've stayed away from the actual L.A. scene for most of my life.

Believe it or not, the sky is blue here in Glasgow. I absolutely love it here.

I really tried to avoid living in L.A. for as long as I can.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a city; it's too barren in the suburbs, and L.A. is a suburb. Here, it felt active.

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

I have sort of a life in Los Angeles.