"Well… er -”“Expecting a rescue is beyond hope under the circumstances!” Sam Barthoff, Mayor of Atro City, interrupted grimly, throwing up his hands in hopelessness. “Hopeless!"
- Christina Engela
"I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd..."
- Donna Tartt
"An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation"
- Enrique Penalosa
"I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever heightened life. I love the proportions, the amplitude, the brilliance, the polish, the so..."
- Anaïs Nin
"In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine."
- Anna Godbersen
"Every inch of space was used. As the road narrowed, signs receded upwards and changed to the vertical. Businesses simply soared from ground level and hung out vaster, more fascinatingly illuminated sh..."
- Jonathan Gash
"This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor."
- Donald Barthelme
"When we feel fractured, redundant and nonessential, only bouncing back from lowliness may brighten up the story of our life. In this endeavor, “otherness” might lend a helping hand in making the road ..."
- Erik Pevernagie
"If we expect to “know” the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we may have a hard time seeing the whole picture, since the truth is a willful construction that allows us often merely to ..."
"Nobody knows exactly what he's capable of until he tries!"
- Nabil N. Jamal