For just a moment, Superman's eyes fell on Lois and there might have been a spark of something there. She'd captured his attention from that first meeting as Clark, and she continued to capture his attention in both personas. Even if she didn't like 'Clark' in that way. Even then, he couldn't help but admire her.
He smiled as he realized that that answer wasn't quotable or useful for her article.
"It's a city of dreams and potential. People come here because they're hoping for something or wishing for something. They come here because there are opportunities that you can't find anywhere else. But after they've been here awhile, sometimes they lose that. I mean, this is a city with some of the tallest buildings in the world and many of the people I've seen spend most of their time looking down at the sidewalk."
It confounded him, truly. His first few days in Metropolis had been spent looking up in awe, even bumping into people because of that. There was a small hope that he might help them find reasons to look up in the sky again.