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

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

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

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

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.

Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.