Gore Vidal Quotes

Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

In N.Y. you're always around people, but in L.A. you can go days without seeing anyone.

People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don't know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has approached a point where living in the world feels somewhat unhealthy.

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job or follow their friends or to be at the center of a scene. That's why we pay the high rent. Cities are all about the people, not the infrastructure.

In 2007, the majority of the world’s population – over 3 billion of us – will live in urban areas for the first time in history.

Mad is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.

When 125,000 people are gathered together on 10 square miles of land they must of necessity give up certain of their liberties. It is a sacrifice they must make for the sake of the advantages of city life.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

The United States was born in the country and has moved to the city.

L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.

I just can't live in New York anymore.

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

Life for me in Los Angeles required medication. I spent nine years being sad and down in the dumps. L.A. doesn't work with my chemistry.

Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I'd never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.

Everybody lives in a city, cause there's not too many people in the small towns who can find work.

I do not like confrontations in New York City.

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.