A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise
Mark Helprin
I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.
Henry Louis Mencken
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
George W. Bush
History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence
Camille Paglia
My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There`s shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That`s why I pay no mind.
Beck Hansen
A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise
Mark Helprin
