A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life.