The wild doesn’t care about your past. It only cares about what you do in the moment.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.

The city is the most important thing. Buildings are just fragments of the city.

Art can be a form of activism.