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.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.