Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back

She focused on that nothingness, imagined it as ink spilling over everything she could possibly think or feel.

Amazement is better than annoyance.

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.

I focus on the task and try and do it as best we can. And we're constantly evolving it, because it's my way of trying to make sense of all these ambivalent feelings I have.

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.