"It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing."

"I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure."

"Planning cities is a necessary but risky business."

"I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric."

"I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes."

"Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women."

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

"I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser."