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The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

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

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.