Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.

Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough.

People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man.".

There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

Our mind has a mind of its own.

When life hands you the unthinkable you must find new ways to see.

We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

Astrology reveals the will of the gods.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.