The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

What people want, above all, is order.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

I like to give stuff away for free and play shows for cheap and not rely on music as a job.

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

With each new album: I need to kill the last version of me.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.