Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

I read the things that scientists have figured out, and apply what they say is beneficial, but at the end of the day I'm the wrong person to get unchallenged nutritional advice from.

Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.

Remember, every pro was first an amateur. Start your dream now!

I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.