Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

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.

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

Life is what we do when we're on the way to live it.

On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...