Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.

But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then?

Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.

You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you...

Every great soul was inspired by another great soul.

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

By putting his hand around my neck he slowly strangled himself.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.

Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.