If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.