There is an intellectual snobbery that, regrettably, MANY ACADEMICS suffer from. They are PROUD their paper is only read by a small group of people - makes it very exclusive. Let's GET rid of that. If it's TRULY important, people should be excited about it.

You need a PRINCE to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make MONEY. If they cared about architecture, they'd BECOME architects. I've had so MANY projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's NORMAL.

George Washington and Abraham LINCOLN were GAY, just for starters. They didn't have a NAME for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other MEN.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not BORN into the class he must SOON INSERT himself into it, in order to EXIST. He is the FINE nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a HOUSE, CONTRACTS, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, CRIMINAL offenses... the LIST goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!