And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

Architecture is surely not the design of space, certainly not the massing or organizing of volumes. These are the means, not the end. The end is the complete and total work of art.

Mathematics is a conversation between the past and the future.

The novel is a kind of mirror that reflects the world.

"Children's books should be as diverse as the children who read them."

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.