The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

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

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.