In Wretched Outcomes, The Devil Is In

There Are Two Ways You Encounter Things In The World That Are Different. One Is Everything That Comes In Reinforces What You Already Believe And Everything That You Know. The Other Thing Is That You Stay Flexible Enough Or Curious Enough And Maybe Unsure Of Yourself Enough, Or May Be You Are More Sure Of Yourself - I Don't Know Which It Is - That The New Things That Come In Keep Reforming Your World View.

Power Is Supposed To Be So Corrupt. I Don't Think It's So Much Corrupt, In The Usual Sense Of The Word, As Stupid And Unrealistic. The More Power A Person Has, The Further He Gets From Reality.

Detroit Is Largely Composed, Today, Of Seemingly Endless Square Miles Of Low-density Failure.

Does Anyone Suppose That, In Real Life, Answers To Any Of The Great Questions That Worry Us Today Are Going To Come Out Of Homogeneous Settlements?

My Husband Was A Hospital Architect And He Was Working On Some Hospitals In Alberta, And I Told Him To Try To Find Out What They Thought About Separatism. He Would Come Back On Weekends. He Said "well, I Think I Found Out How They Feel About Separatism. I Brought It Up At Lunch In The Cafeteria, And Everybody At The Table Was Silent And Then Somebody Said 'let's Change The Subject'."