Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.
Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.
The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.
Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.
Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.
No one will ever be the servant of the Son without serving the Mother.
We read, we travel, we become.
It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.
When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream. However, the most classic American dessert of all might be the chocolate chip cookie.