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

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.