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I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.

My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.