Urban Dwellers Quotes

Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark.

The downside to the Whole Foods experience is that its success is driven by one of our era's more grotesque phenomena: the upwardly-mobile urban dweller, the one who wants to indulge class-conscious epicurean yearnings and save the world, too.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.

This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.