New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.

We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.