A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
I love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles.
Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.
I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.
