We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.