City Fatigue Quotes

I'm kind of getting over the whole Manhattan life. I'm from Vancouver, and that means mountains and a lot of space.

And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered neighborhoods entirely new to me. And finally... I discovered I was sick of this town and everything in it.

I do think about moving out of London a lot, whether that's L.A., whether that's Margate with half of the other Hackneyites.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

I bought a place in Milan, but Missoni headquarters are out in the country, in Sumirago. My whole family eats out of the same vegetable garden; my mother raises chickens. I love the city, but if you're always bombarded with stimulation, you get numb to it. I need to get bored to create.

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!