In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.

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.

You must be present in the present to make it a present.

Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.

...reflection can transform something familiar.

The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult