Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
In the city, the stars are dimmed by the lights. In the country, the lights dim in comparison to the stars.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
The city is a strange attractor. It draws strange people.
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
The city's as cold and lonely as it is huge, and I'm just one small part of it lost in the crowd.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Cities are the abyss of the human species.