The magic of autumn has seized the countryside

a square is not just about light, air, proportion, and people. It must also give form to some shared notion of civic identity. [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].

There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

In other words, you are our last possible hope. You are our only hope.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'