As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.