“The city’s sick. Sick in a way I hadn’t realized.”— John Stephens, James Gordon, Ben McKenzie, imdb.com
“Cities are all about loss. Intrinsically dynamic, cities have to change, or they end up like Venice, preserved in amber for the tourists.”— Kevin Baker, harpers.org
“Spent time this week in the mountains. It’s good to disconnect, all things important in the city are irrelevant here.”— Dan Bilzerian, twitter.com
“Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“So all were gone at last, one by one, each swept out into the mighty flood tide of the city's life, there to prove, to test, to find, to lose himself, as each man must--alone.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“most people fear the fire there’s the burning the suffocation the losing who wouldn’t be afraid of the fire? You. when you reach that dark alley and decided to make a left when you skipped morning coffee because you’ve had too much wine when you felt so heavy-hearted but scuffled upon approaching yo…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Wright holds that the city will inevitably decay and disappear because he imagines electrification and physical mobility as the dynamic factors in contemporary history, sweeping and carrying all before them.”— Morton Gabriel White, amazon.com