We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined thus far don't seem very attractive.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.