Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier.

Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless.

He is trapped underground, suddenly and unexpectedly close to death, but still in control of his fate. "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it, " he says later.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side.

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.

Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.