Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

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.

texan starting eternity: I never dreamed heaven would be so much like Texas. companion: Who said this was heaven?

There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

Adult dragons are,astute,powerful,and sure of their strength.

I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. Thats good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

Now all of us in our thirties are the first generation that get to say, "I don't know how I feel about that system, I don't know if I want kids, I don't know if I want to get married."

Wear what suits you best, rather than following trends, and create your own style... I go with a feeling or emotion and don't necessarily plan.

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?