I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will not be revived. Our cities are going to contract. Many of them will contract as a whole but densify at their core.

Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore because they haven't been doing it for, you know, the better part of the century.

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.