The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.
Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
It's always freezing on planes.