The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

May the Father judge him justly.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

There is no substitute for guts.

I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

Be unrelenting. If you don't believe, then who will?

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.