The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

The car is the cigarette of the future.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Unless we can predict the future, we shouldn't be worrying about things that haven't happened yet. We can place these thoughts in God's hands then let them go.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.

We pray to God for ourselves instead of the general good.

The gift blesses the giver.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?

The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

New York is the thing that seduced me.

People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.