“The creation of this sugarplum fairy vision of what a city looks like or can look like is an unnecessary, and I think, slightly insulting view of human intelligence.”
“When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.”
“Dude, I'm not sure if this U of M situation thing is going to work out. See, I still haven't heard from the school. Listen Reed, you so need to get me a job if it doesn't work out. I am a writer and am known for excellent architectural research and you better hook me up with a fabulous job somewhere. Also, it's been almost ten days since I filed for divorce and no one has shown interest in me. I think I need to hook up with the Germans. For some reason, the Germans really like me alot. Let's see there was Mattias, the German intern over at the firm that I worked for who liked me alot and then there was my German roof tile supplier in Singapore who kept giving me free VIP passes to all those events and then of course there is my neverending love affair with Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe whose autobiography by Peter Blake contains one of the most erotic sketches in the whole wide world. These Germans I tell you. They have this thing for me. I must look like the Bauhaus.”
“Didn't you say that you have to be consistent? Well how come you didn't show up at the movies, he didn't show up at crazy wisdom and how come every time you're in the school of architecture-I just can't get in?”
