New ideas often need old buildings.

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.

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.