“You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.”

“I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.”