Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos - then swallows whole.

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.