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.

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.

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.

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.

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory. But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness.