Architecture aims at Eternity

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

Word count doesn't tell me when a story ends, my characters will tell me.

When have I ever given him the impression that I was okay with him just stopping by whenever he wanted to use my body as an organic garbage disposal?

I drink a lot of Body Armor - it's a sports drink. It offers great hydration, and it's the best before/after drink for workouts. Orange mango is my favorite. Strawberry banana is a close second.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

I now know why people break up in e-mails and text messages. Doing it face-to-face is so hard because you have to stand in front of the person and witness their reaction. Face their wrath.