To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

Embrace your responsibility to dream big.

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

I've never made a secret of my homosexuality.

My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.

A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.