Don’t fear change

My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

We don't have to accept the things we might change.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.