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I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.

Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them.

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

I live in too many cities.

I don't like all suburbs, just like I don't like all parts of cities.

It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.