By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.

In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.