I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
The City that knows how.
When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of being attacked on the way, the traffic snarl-ups, the bland indifference of the city cops, they are unmistakably bragging.
Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me.
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.
I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.
Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth.
I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L. A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.
I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.
My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness
If you sit around and wring your hands as they're all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then it is too late.
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
There's something about New York. You can get a nice feeling of belonging as a writer here. It's probably the best city on Earth like that. I miss the wisecracking of New York.
When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.
I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.
Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks.
I'm originally from a town called Ipswich. I currently live in Newburyport. It's a port city, so I'm right on a river. It's really close to New Hampshire; I can pretty much throw a rock. I like where I'm from.
I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.