Mason Cooley Cities Quotations

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

A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

City wits, country humorists.

In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.

Satire is born of the cities it denounces.

A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.