David Simon Quotes

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

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

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

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

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

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

L.A.'s pretty great, man. But I'll be very honest - I prefer New York. It's more my speed.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Good and bad make up a city.

the simplicity & quiet ease of village life, is all humbug. The city is the only place to gain a knowledge of the world.

Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people.

Growing up in Manhattan has given me a thick skin.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

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.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.