In real life, love and hate are often only separable if we’re willing to recognize our demons and choose to become better people.

This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey’s Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on Prozac.

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.