This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Life was not meant to be live alone.

Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.

If you can establish yourself in the community as a giver, those people with whom you associate yourself will extend your branding far beyond you.

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.