Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.