“As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!”

“The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.”

“The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?”

“The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.”

“He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.”

“It's not because we knew” Lukas said, sucking a gasp of air. “It's because we did it.”

“Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.”