"Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights...."

“Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers. To know such cities, to unwrap them, as it were, one has to have been born there.”

- Truman Capote, “Hidden Gems" from Music for Chameleons