It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.

So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.