In Our American Cities, We Need All

Maybe Part Of My Animus Against The English Is The Way They Have Always Treated The Irish And They Way They Still Think About The Irish.

I Think That Things Are Going To Change Just Because People Get Too Damn Bored With What They Have.

Some Men Tend To Cling To Old Intellectual Excitements, Just As Some Belles, When They Are Old Ladies, Still Cling To The Fashions And Coiffures Of Their Exciting Youth.

The First Fundamental Of Successful City Life: People Must Take A Modicum Of Responsibility For Each Other Even If They Have No Ties To Each Other. This Is A Lesson No One Learns By Being Told. It Is Learned From The Experience Of Having Other People Without Ties Of Kinship Or Close Friendship Or Formal Responsibility To You Take A Modicum Of Responsibility For You.

The Entrepreneurial Investors Of The Time Just Want To Repeat Themselves Indefinitely And Don't Know When To Stop. You Can't Do That. And So Finally The Housing Boom, Or The Auto Boom, Or Whatever It Is That's Been Carrying Things Along, Runs Out Of Customers.