Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again".

The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

Memory is the coherence of life, that possesses all your emotions, and ambitions. Without it, your joyous as well as agonizing experiences of life won’t have any significance to you whatsoever.

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

Remember yourself always and everywhere.

I like bringing smiles to people's faces.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

I think that, as a woman, it's much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.

Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.

Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.