Its sort of my job to feel good.

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.

In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering.

Build a tangled bank.

I'd rather let the world down than to allow the world to let me down.

I definitely think about death. And every day your relationship with death changes. And every day I sort of feel like I know it more. I've always thought about it.

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.

She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.