City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.

Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

what's real within the story is real within the story

Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.