Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

Man has not forgotten to be man because man has not yet learned to be man! You can’t forget the thing you haven’t learned yet!

You walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.