Quotes About Urban

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I've been in many of them [ghetto areas] and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

To some extent, if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Every city is a living body.

the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city.

The hoarse church-bells of London ring; The hoarser horns of London croak; The poor brown lives of London cling About the poor brown streets like smoke; The deep air stands above my roof Like water, to the floating stars. My friend and I - we sit aloof - We sit and smile, and bind our scars.

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

He checks with the mandolin man on the roof; there is always a man on the roof with a semiautomatic mandolin.

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.

The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling. It was a patchwork of asphalt spot repairs and loose gravel over a crumbling base of decades-old concrete.

Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.

Los Angeles: there was no rush hour because every hour was rush hour.

Darius McGinley had had only one profession since age eleven, drug dealer. He'd had only one true family, a gang.

The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling.

Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.

Hopper's Nighthawks.

Suitcase City wasn't a store. It was a place. It was Los Angeles. Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really dropped anchor. It was a transient place.

most visible police department.

concrete aqueduct known as the Los Angeles River.

between 7th and 8th Streets, and then the location of the

There's always a Starbucks around.