People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke.

If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World War II? And if I had, would I have done anything about it? I also started to wonder: how does a culture slip its moorings?

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

He is visiting in the background of what is happening.

When I'm in New York, I have, like probably everybody else in Manhattan, a white-noise generator to use at night: a Marpac Dual-Speed Dohm-DS. It is terrific. I've never slept better in the city.