I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance,

One thing that's great is if you're staying downtown at the Renaissance, you don't even have to leave the hotel. The hotel has been fantastic and the people are real good. So far it's been great.

Everything downtown doesn't have to be a skyscraper.

[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.

I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots — the bottom of the bottom — and I have to rationalize it. Am I pushing out the homeless?

I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots — the bottom of the bottom — and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?