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

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.

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.

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

I know you miss me but what do you do about that?

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

When you bluff, someone may call you on it.

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.