The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

Love may fail, but #‎ courtesy will prevail.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.

I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.