Mark Haddon Quotes

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.

I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

I live part of the time in Oxford, and I love it.

Oxford is a very special place. You really sensed the value of a good education there.

I feel really comfortable in Leipzig.

Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games.

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.

New York is a fantastic city.

New York is the greatest city in the world.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

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.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

This [Washington DC] is a town of anecdotes.

It's pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you're in the capital of the world.

London is the greatest city in the world.

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 like Chennai very much. The atmosphere is always great, and the fans are amazing. That's why I keep coming back.

Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

My social life's moved up a few notches since moving back to London from Surrey because I'm near friends and family again and I'm really enjoying it.

Athens is one of those cities that is very livable. And it's inexpensive. You can get by. And that makes for creativity. So people tend to stay there. I still have some friends there that never left.