Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.

You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

It's fine to wait for an appropriate time, but it's inappropriate to wait forever.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world