Americans have got it so dinged into them that they are the most fortunate people on Earth, and that the rest of the world - the sooner it copies what America is like, the better.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

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.

I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be different kinds of engines for cars. I think that solar heating, wind heating can substitute for a lot of uses for oil. I'd like to see those things happen because they are more sustainable in any case. But I do not think that running out of oil is not going to bother us that much. I think we have got to be rescued by something or we really are going down a slippery slope.

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.