Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.

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.

That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would feel it... a pulse. My pulse. My blood is hope.

Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential.

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

How are we going to know what impact that has on the greenhouse gas emissions? How are we going to hold everybody accountable for doing their part?

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).

My video game character is a bit better looking than me, actually. I don't think he has to worry about his hair getting messed up.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.