So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

People tend to sit where there are places to sit

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

Never pay attention to the distractions in life. Focus on possibilities.

She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.

I'm training myself to go back to the way I used to record before electronic programs.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.