New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign!

Really, I'm pretty laid-back, always cracking jokes.

My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I dont know.

People may create your dreams with you, not for you. It’s you and only you who has to think, start and continue.

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

it {romantic love} really isn't about two people who have fallen madly for each other

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.