Urban Discovery Quotes

I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.

On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of the city. It's a wonderful way to get to know the city.

On Halloween, because we don't celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.

Cycling is a great way to learn about your city. I love being outdoors, especially in good weather, but I'm not a fair weather cyclist. I'm happy to get a red nose in the cold.

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

I love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.

There's no place like New York. And I found out that until you go through it for a season, you really don't know it.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.

If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.

I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart.

If you look at a great city, one of its amazing features is that you're going to find all sorts of things that you might not specifically have chosen in advance. And they will change your day. Maybe your month. Maybe your whole life.

I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

On the whole, when I travel to different countries, I like to find the hidden places, so I tend to avoid the cities - but in terms of the ease of getting about, finding what you need, the excitement, that undercurrent of whatever you want it to be, it's got to be London.

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 really liked falling in love with cities that I had actively disliked before.

I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

I love the fact you can walk down a street in London and get lost, even though you've lived here 20 years.

I bike around New York City for hours and write about everything I love, think about, or see. I also ride back and forth on the subway - that's where I get my best writing done.

I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.

Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.

I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as possible, looking and listening, having conversations with bridges and streets and riverbanks, conversations I tend not to be aware of until a little later, when I find myself returning to those places to say hello again, even if only in memory.

I enjoyed my time in Baltimore. I really did. I learned so much.