“Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.”

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It’s so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we’re serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.

I think the industry finally gets it. They’ve lost the connection with the American public, and they’ve got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . .

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

It’s part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.