American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.

I would say that it is a trait by which Americans, searching for things which are different or new, seem to recognize the gift that people may have that cause people do to things.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.