I love that time when all you want to do is cocoon with your baby in your own little world, when you carry them around all the time in a little pouch or sling.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

I do prenatal yoga and walk a lot.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No.

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

There is some pain that nothing heals" [Zarek}

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.