Karl Philipp Moritz Quotes

Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district having a definite character.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.

Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

I've been in a lot of castles, and they are pretty damp, cold and gloomy. However, I love Windsor Castle in England.

If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there faster on the subway. I just love walking the streets of New York.

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The three books I've written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as description goes.