The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Time is running out for the climate

If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.

Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's got something to say.

I am wilderness and madness made flesh. You are just a girl" –he smiled, and the tips of his teeth were sharp–"and I am the wolf in the woods.

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

Your education is one of the greatest treasures you can ever acquire and something no one can ever take away from you.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe

The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.

Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.