“Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.”

Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.

Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.

My work doesn’t speak about individuals (it’s not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West – which is where I live and what I understand.

I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.