A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
It’s like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he’s a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.
I live in L. A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.
Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.