Poems ancient and modern prowled the ice floes in bear form, filled with words that could wound with their beauty.

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.

I will not be my father's dog.

The lovelorn came, too. The alone. The lunatics-they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name from the moon, it was only fair the moon had a chance to fix things.

The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.

Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

The bond of love is divine.

She wants another spin on the wheel of fortune? This was always my problem with her: I could never tell the difference between the feeling of love and the feeling of danger.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

Is it sad that my first thought happened to be: Thank God I'm off the treadmill.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.