...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people.

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you ‘can only take in small doses.’

Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.

When you finally get something together after hours of work and it's good, you know it's not for nothing!