We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

A suburban mall turned vertical.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

Many have doubts

Every organ in your body is connected to the one under your hat.

There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom, And they stand at my side and they lean on my chair.

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

Even if you don't sing on your tracks, if you know how to sing, it'll probably help you out.

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.

Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.