...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

people in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.

For too long, information, opportunities, and resources have been constraints, they need to be the bridges.

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

I believe that we have to lift the voice without fear and simply go forward, because in a lot of other occasions, we got tired, we have lowered the arms and simply let everything happen.

The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.