Boxes Quote by Truman Capote

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

— Rabih Alameddine

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or…

— Rebecca Solnit

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives…

— Italo Calvino

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

— Jane Jacobs

“Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live…

— Benjamin Hale

“The city centre was still crawling with Christmas shoppers looking to add to their already burgeoning piles of gifts. To Scott they were like…

— Anonymous

In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the…

— T. D. Jakes

“A great gift would be a map full of evacuation routes for the city, subtly telling the recipient to get the hell out of…

— Jarod Kintz

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities…

— Anonymous

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem

— Neal Shusterman