Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us.

At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.