I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

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.

Keep moving!” “Bea’s arguing with the floor.

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control.

He was Control, and he was in control.

Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.

Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.