War is a specific product of civilization.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.

Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.