If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.

Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

When you focus on place you do everything differently.

Placemaking is community organizing. It's a campaign.

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

The Holy Spirit teaches the Truth.

Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

I was raised by a single dad, so I've always just kind of liked "guys" stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.