New ideas often need old buildings.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

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.

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

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.