a square is not just about light, air, proportion, and people. It must also give form to some shared notion of civic identity. [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].

As always, violence created more violence [Jehane Noujaim, "Tahrir Square, Cairo: Lost and Found in the Square"].

a city square that's designed on a scale to express national greatness is hostile to the human intimacy necessary for freedom's space [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].

Hate in your heart will consume you.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

Poetry is fired by love.

The Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.

Slashdot. I did that.