Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.