I started to earn money because we didn't have money..

At that time there was, but they didn't have the guitar I wanted. There are only about 2000 people there and the next town was Dodge City 40 or 50 mi….

You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester ….

At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend..

I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of….

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban ….

A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panora….

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement..

I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless p….

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power..

I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected ….

You can't control what you can't measure.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me..

I never have anything to talk about..

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own….

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city..

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again..

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning of a long struggle for ….

Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only th….

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares..

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a wh….