I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.

I am not any hate-America person. I really came here for positive reasons.