These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary double the wage and change the decimal to a comma.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

When you would think, "what was the use of it," you'll remember something you can't grasp and you'll wonder what it was.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Never give up on the things that make you smile.