“But what about thriving because of human connections? What about slowing it down and seeing the way the world works? What about listening to others speak? What if human interaction made you feel better and not worse?”— Jami Attenberg, curbed.com
“There is a meditative quality to being on a bicycle. You must focus on the chaos that seems to envelop you. Drivers cut you off, swerving into the bike lane. Pedestrians insist on standing in the road while waiting for the light to change.”— Elaisha Stokes, nytimes.com
“Somehow, as a society, we are OK with the fact that we are moving a two-pound burrito with a two-ton car,”— Ali Kashani, wired.com
“We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet!”— Aaron Sorkin, Sean Parker, Justin Timberlake, imdb.com
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”— Jorge Luis Borges, theguardian.com
“I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I’m reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.”— John Green, youtube.com
“'Ive reminded people when were in Detroit a few weeks ago that Detroit 75 years ago was in essence Silicon Valley when the car was the hot technology of the day and 75 years ago Silicon Valley was just fruit orchards.”— Steve Case, usatoday.com
“Why should the city run subways or bus lines when people hardly ever need to travel around? Drones bring them their groceries, the Internet brings their jobs. With those services reduced, people will no longer be bound to cities, either.”— David Vandervort, medium.com
“There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenizing, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feelings -- depression, anxiety,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“There are stories that one can tell best, while backfloating in the pool, with the scuba diver feet on, whistling a song. There's a paintings odyssey I carry in my heart, a story I immersed myself into, which carried me or my words or my artwork back and forth, from the Netherlands to Bucharest, fro…”— Laura Livia Grigore, facebook.com
“New York has closed itself off to the young and struggling… New York City has been taken away from you … So my advice is: Find a new city.”— Patti Smith, amazon.com
“The love of a city, like the love of a person, often begins in the first instant of encounter. The rest is discovery and exploration.”— John Baxter, amazon.com
“City-sized shopping malls were erected in the blink of an eye, and storefronts spread across planets like time-lapse footage of mold devouring an orange.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“New York is a peninsula and Manhattan is an island and it doesn't belong to America — it is a continent by itself in a sense. That is why we are comfortable in New York; it is very European in one sense and very American in another and so it feels comfortable for an ex-patriot. But when you are in C…”— Massimo Vignelli, amazon.com
“The luxury privilege of the next twenty years will be to leave the city. Not as its leashed servant in a suburb, but to wherever one wants.”— Jason Fried, amazon.com