It takes a great client to create great architecture.

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

It was painful to have him so near, yet beyond my reach.

There is no meaning to fate If you don't have faith

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

The results of the two referenda demonstrate the majority view of the Taiwanese people.

Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.

THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.