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.

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.

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

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.

Even though we've devoted our lives to music, we both know that the most important things happen without a soundtrack.

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

I think when a time comes, a change comes, and you have to recognize the change but also believe in yourself.

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.