For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

A suburban mall turned vertical.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.

O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.