When you focus on place you do everything differently.

Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.

Placemaking is community organizing. It's a campaign.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

There was something irresistible about popcorn.

The heart feels, the head compares.

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

When God commands, do it!

Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.

I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk.

When did I stop being me?

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.