loneliness doesn't kill you, but it becomes extremely different when you find it among the crowd.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect

She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.

Foolish potato, talking to her like that won’t work. You’ve got to be mean and show off your foil-wrapped rigidity.

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

I've never been overseas. I can only imagine what that's like.

I think it's really important to treat yourself with respect because sometimes people can get down on themselves

I understand why many are still poor or struggling to make just a middle-income lifestyle. I'm a fiscal conservative, but I also have compassion for people who make financial mistakes.

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?