Herb Caen Cities Quotations

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.

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

God! I loove this city!

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.