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

The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.

I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.

What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

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.