A suburban mall turned vertical.

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.

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

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

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.

Holding on, holding out and holding fast when the going is tough constitutes a winning mindset.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

To sing is to express, to love is to hurt

To me, little Mike Wazowski is one of the best characters I ever got to play because he was funny. He was outrageous. He got angry. He was romantic. He was a full, well-rounded character.

You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.

The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.