That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It's your road.

If you're frightened, you're out of luck.

Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.