English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.