Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

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.

Wolf, not dog. You were bitten by a Lycan, not Lassie.

Rivera rubbed his temples. "Satan told you to do it?" he said wearily."No.""Elvis?""I told you, it's supernatural.

It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

I knew coming into this to fight that this was going to be a world class fight, but I knew he didn't have the skills to beat me.

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.

The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately.

The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.