The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.