Lewis Mumford

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Despite being bailed out - in some cases repeatedly - by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit.