I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

The car is the cigarette of the future.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

Life is dance. Dance with your own rhythm.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.

Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.

The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . .

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.