Even at the End of Days, there will be lap dancing.

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Time is running out for the climate

If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

We fool ourselvesinto thinkingwe’re strongthen complainthe rest of our livescrippled bythe consequences.

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

I don't really like money - I like the things you can buy with money.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.