There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.