The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival.

You are my blessing. Not because you always make me smile but because you made my heart happy.

Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

As far as he knew, I was dying.

As long as I love Beauty I am young.