The City Works for Me

"The most obnoxious and useless ideas, useless in the sense of their intrinsic logic, find the easiest welcome on the campus," he says. "I think this is partly because I've been sensitized so much to the catastrophes of existence that when I go outside and everything works ... it's a complete miracle." The world is more peaceful than it's ever been - there are no wars in the Western Hemisphere for the first time since Columbus arrived.