Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth