The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

What people want, above all, is order.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?

Most of the time our stress is useless. It's because we don't see the outcome of things. God does.

In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.