William Gibson Quotes

I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you go from a big city to a small city or if you go from one country to another. Cities look very different, often. They even feel very different. You know, and they are, of course. They certainly are.

New York City has always had more in common with Paris or London than with Cincinnati.

Good and bad make up a city.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there, but it's really hard to make it into a Las Vegas version of it because it doesn't look at all like Las Vegas.

I think there's a big difference between New York and Chicago.

Chicago - it's a mini-New York.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.

New York is the only real city-city.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Most cities are the same.

New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

When I walk through the city, I just think that I see my family. I see us in everybody, you know? I see us.

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.