City Life Challenges Quotes

This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

If life is hard on you, dwell in cities

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

I couldn't relate to the mindset of people in my hometown. Since I had no educational qualification, I only got menial jobs in Delhi.

What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.