Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.

Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat—chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.

As cheesy and melodramatic as it might sound, love excites me more than anything... in all its forms.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

I guess the main source of stress for me is the stress I put on myself.