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Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

Neighborhoods change. In some ways, it's part of the beauty of New York City. It's in a constant state of flux.

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'

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.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.

Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.