Darin Strauss Quotes

The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

I was raised on Long Island. There were a lot of cops and firefighters who lived there.

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

I grew up in the suburbs, sometimes country-like suburbs because we moved around, but mostly suburbs.

I grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. I attended the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1978 to 1984.

My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.

If you're a suburban kid, and you're 30 minutes from New York City, that's the luckiest thing in the world.

I'm a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it's tracts of homes.

When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like a grey area between rural and suburban, so there were a lot of forests and parks.

I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.

I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.

San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.

I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.

Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it's always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.

The biggest downside of L.A. is the traffic and parking tickets. They turn me into Michael Douglas in 'Falling Down.'

I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.

I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I lived in my car.

In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.

I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'

I grew up in Mount Airy, a middle-class enclave in the Northwestern area of Philadelphia.