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.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.