The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

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.

Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent.

A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language trying to get human feelings right.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .