A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . .

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.

What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

I am entering into the truth, into nature.

The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.