Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

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.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.