the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.
In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.
Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?
Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.
Diamonds are the tears of the poor.
the true and the plausible are rarely the same.