The car is the cigarette of the future.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

We can’t have landfills forever and we can’t ask others to accept our trash.

By God’s grace and mighty power, we can do great deeds.

I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

Stay Weird, Stay Different.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

A waste land lit by holy candles.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.