It's the change of rhythm which I THINK is what keeps me ALIVE. In Spain I hear so much noise from my WINDOW that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the LACK of noise that drives me crazy.
What DRIVES people to public service is a SENSE of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't GET started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.
On a typical day, WALKING down the STREET, there are a COUPLE of PHOTOGRAPHERS and then there get to be more and more. It's the most awkward THING, because you have to pretend that they're not there and it drives you nuts.
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I TAKE consolation from the part of my LIFE that always WORKS: the stationery ORDER. The mail-order stationery people supply every NEED from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
I've always FELTALIENATED. I REALIZED that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can IDENTIFY that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.
Out-innovating them is the way to BEAT China. And to do everything that we do in this country to SUPPORT innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't PUT a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't WORK.