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

I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

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.

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art.

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.