I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow an….

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine..

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake..

You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Bras….

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax..

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize..

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?.

Majorities, of course, start with minorities..

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs..

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life..

Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened ….

Critics build nothing..

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy..

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedra….

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration..