After all, that’s all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

You're a Good Little Slave

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Few things worth having can be got easily.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

Communication must be HOT: honest, open, and two-way.

Live today facing forward—with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment.

Feet got sore, body was tired, long day, march down Manhattan.I felt a fire lit within me.Hopefully this fire will touchall of us, will be a long fight.-Climate Change March 2014

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

This thing, reconciliation, isn't perfect, but we also must have hope. Without hope, there is nothing. So let's hope.