I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.

To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

I look at [Toronto] and think well, perhaps my grandchildren will someday look at this stuff with the sort of appreciation I once held for Art Deco. Although I've come to find Art Deco quite creepy too.