Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.

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.

By night an atheist half believes in God.

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.

It is poetry that changes everything.

I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.