Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.

Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general.