Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.

Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment.

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

There are never enough 'I love you's.

curiosity did not kill the cat

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me