Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.

Life is a battle

Layout your options, create a beautiful masterpiece of yours.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.

Leaving can sometimes be the best way to never go away.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.