“The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one of the most interesting in America: and with good reason.”
“Pittsburgh. I'd been there. One of the most underrated cities in North America. People who'd never been there thought of it as a graveyard of abandoned steel mills, but it was a beautiful city, and it would be good to have it back.”
“I wonder what city Grover Cleveland is from. Probably Cincinnati.”
“A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.”
“But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them”
“the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.”