I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

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

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

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.

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.