LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship…

— Jack Kerouac

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and…

— Jack Kerouac

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

— Newt Gingrich

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

— Pete Hamill

I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that…

— John Green

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

— John Henry Cox

[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other…

— John Gunther

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

— Tom Piazza

In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is…

— Daniel Dennett

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and…

— Alan Autry

Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all…

— Fritz Leiber

What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to…

— Henry Giroux

Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to the Mexican city of Juarez as the most dangerous city in America. In his defense, he probably just…

— Jay Leno

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern…

— Martin Filler