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Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.