...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

If you know nothing, be pleased to know nothing.

From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank all the fans of Boston. I love those guys, they have been there for me in the ups and downs.

I plan on getting out there and mixing with the crowd. I want to show everyone what happens in Times Square not from a distance, but from right there in the crowd.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

Today, rather than looking for the worst in people, I encourage you to look for what's best within them.

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.