Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

You can look anywhere and find inspiration.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

We are artists. When we can’t find the beauty, we create it.

What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out?

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Americans don't win. Our country doesn't win. We don't win at trade. We don't win. We can't beat ISIS.

Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.

I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.

I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.