"Walking about? With a hole in his forehead full of maggots" "Aye. It were like a damn fisherman's tub."

"I’m pretty serious about what I’m doing. I’m not as unapproachable as many would say and I’m not as grumpy , a little frustrated sometimes with the lobbyists and bureaucrats, if they’d let us do our j…"

"People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos."

"Have you, with your work, made anyone glow? Erupted their sorrow? Evicted their woe? Have you been anyone's consolation through a night? Have you evoked unrehearsed emotion? Chiseled a crack in someon…"

"So why did spatial issues remain a blind spot for the economic profession? It was not a historical accident: there was something about spatial economics that made it inherently unfriendly terrain for …"