Quotes About Urban

And what better place to sow vengeance—to, quite literally, turn Gotham into a City of Endless Night?

The Mole People, by Jennifer Toth (Chicago Review Press, 1993).

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

No, doctor, I'm going to London. If things happen anywhere, they happen in London.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Bred to the pavement and steel that became his life's work, he nonetheless marvels at the annual miracle of baby peregrine falcons hatching high atop the George Washington's towers, and at the sheer botanical audacity of grass, weeds, and ailanthus trees that defiantly bloom, far from topsoil, from metal niches suspended high above the water.

Modern places are made up of layers of incomplete visions of the future, and the result is a permanent state of impermanence.

The city is a place where nature is excised and then mourned, killed off then raised from the dead, only to be entombed in caged-off spaces of floral tribute.

That morning I'd read that construction workers in London had discovered a young fox living off their leftover sandwiches on the unfinished seventy-second floor of the Shard, the UK's tallest building.

In the early 1990s I got involved with one of the more outré forms of this reinvention, known as psychogeography.

To wander through a day care center in Newcastle while clutching a map of the Berlin subway is genuinely disorienting.

My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to people being shoulder-to-shoulder all the time - in the street, on the train - you become a people person. People are very open to hearing a lot of different perspectives, and they aren't as sensitive.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

I love Philadelphia.

My toughness comes from just being from Philly, man.

People in Philly are always late.

I do really love New York. I feel like there are more Asian restaurants. Philly has a sick food scene, I don't want to diss it at all. But New York is so much bigger and there are more options.

Well, it's like this - I hate Los Angeles and I love Phoenix.

Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.

I used to be a pretty hard-core iPhone fan. But over time, I grew more and more frustrated with the lousy service on AT&T. My iPhone simply could not reliably make and hold a phone call. Not just in New York and San Francisco, where I spend a lot of time, and where AT&T's service has been notoriously bad for years.

Everywhere in New York is cool to see and cool to photograph.