I'm not comfortable with comfort. I'm only comfortable when I'm uncomfortable.

The city is a great artifact, the supreme work of human civilization.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

The bond market is the ultimate barometer of investor sentiment.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.