When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

All autobiography is fiction.

living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

When one dream dies we replace it with another.

I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.

Never take your eyes off your opponent, even when you bow.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.

Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.

Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.

The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.