The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have gotten a thicker skin. I can get angry about these things without feeling like vomiting, if you know what I mean.

Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.

A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.