A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

I believe that woman are superior to men.

I've often stopped working for long periods.