But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddle Valley where her father's group of parishes was centered. It would have been hard to make credible a romantic fiction set in Farleigh Piddle, Middle Piddle, Nether Piddle and Piddle Dummer.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.