It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.
Hong Kong is a wonderful city.
London is a modern Babylon.
Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.
New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.
I think there's no city quite like New York, and I've seen most of the developed cities of the world. I admire this place, its energy. It's the repository of so much history and culture and diversity.
Today, Paris is the capital of the world.
What's special about Amsterdam is that the city is able to connect worlds that are not otherwise connected.
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
