A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

The car is the cigarette of the future.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

Work becomes satisfaction when it is in the area of your calling

If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

It's pretty much, having everything on your shoulder versus depending on an entire team.

I don't know if the record is going to happen. I don't really think about the record. There are other things I worry about.

Don't think twice, it's alright.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth.

Would you rather be deaf or blind?