High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.

If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.

Ill lose myself in the pain. It might not make sense. But it works.

There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

The less heart, the more comfort.