Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?""The outside world may want you, " he replied.

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]

Tiago turned to survey the large, crowded ballroom. "Good job not killing anybody.""That's what Pia said, " Dragos told him. "Night's not over yet.

Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.