This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.

the magnitude of our relationship with others depends on the lattitude of our actions...quote for today

Make peace with yourself, and both heaven and earth will make peace with you.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.

I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.

I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.