People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

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 Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.

If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".

If you've got a dream, there is no one out there to stop you, from achieving it.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.