People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

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

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.

Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as "mushy.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.