Steve Inskeep Quotes

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

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 feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture.

In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip.

By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale.

When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.

Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

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

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else

National culture can act as a bridge, instead of an obstacle, to mutual spiritual and intellectual understanding.

The tendency is away from the farm and away from the rural districts ; the trend is toward the city, where the needy congregate and where crime becomes organized and where the Republic is stabbed

… technologies that convene different cultures do not always help them interact peaceably.

The city of Peking [Beijing] is a novel site for a European. He will not weary of admiring the manner in which the nearly 3 million people gathered within its vast enclosure are ruled by the police as schoolchildren by their masters. People coming and going fill streets wider than the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. The crowd is beyond belief, yet peace reigns everywhere.

I really liked New York City.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It's got a bit busier since the '60s, but the more the merrier!

My family is very international.