The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

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.

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

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.

It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

The laughers are a majority.

God is the transcendent whole of things of which you are an individualized part.

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.

People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.