Saul Perlmutter Quotes

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

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

If you live in a crowded area of Brooklyn or Manhattan, having a car is a hindrance. It doesn't even make sense. I basically grew up all my life without a car.

There are many sides of the urban life that I dislike, but there are many sides I am deeply in love with and attached to.

To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.

I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.

In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.

The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.

I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.

I live in L.A., I grew up here, it's not that crazy for me because it's L.A., you know?

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.

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'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

I'm much more of a city girl. I like the mall. I like shopping.

Part of what I like about living in Chicago is it's not easy. The breath of the city, the everyday challenge of it, is good. It forces you to grow and push yourself.

New York is not a place that lets you be indifferent. New York is this kind of place that, wherever you go, wherever you move, you are always confronted by your own time.

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