Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell.

You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

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

New ideas must use old buildings

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about the Irish.

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.