Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.

People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

I still have a lot of family in America. I still have a lot of friends there. There is a lot that I admire there very much. When I find America getting too much criticized outside America, I want to tell them how many things are good about it.

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.

New ideas often need old buildings.

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