Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

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.

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.

If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.

Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

I'm not to the point where I need to shut myself off from people, unless I feel like I need to, but I don't force myself to deal with people.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.